{"id":1112,"date":"2008-04-11T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1112"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T19:26:29","slug":"whos-a-lucky-fox-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/whos-a-lucky-fox-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s a lucky fox then"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I think I&#39;ve learned why we&#39;ve been seeing less of the foxes in the garden this year. As a rule foxes will explore where there&#39;s food, and will return regularly to favoured hunting grounds. In a semi-urban environment that means a mix of real hunting grounds (rabbits, birds, rodents, fruit, and bugs) and friendly gardens where food is available. Our garden is only of moderate interest. I don&#39;t leave quantities of food out for them to find, just handfuls of sultanas and an occasional egg. Enough to keep them coming back or hold still for the camera, but not enough to make them remotely reliant on me for feeding. And of course they do hunt the smaller animals that share the space.<\/p>\n<p>Having glimpsed the nicked-ear vixen last night I set up this evening in a determined attempt to photograph her. The lure was an egg. I hid myself away at the far end of the garden with a long lens and flash at the ready. After about 20 minutes I saw a face appear in the camera viewfinder. I managed one shot, and she was gone. It was when I looked closer that I saw why she&#39;s less than impressed with our garden.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fox_nicked_vixen_chop_1104082545.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve no idea where she found that chop, but I doubt that our local butcher was open at this time of night \ud83d\ude00 Someone else around here likes foxes!<\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: photo taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}