{"id":1132,"date":"2008-05-12T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1132"},"modified":"2013-11-20T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:54:58","slug":"a-brief-fox-update-and-three-dragonflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-brief-fox-update-and-three-dragonflies\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief fox update (and three dragonflies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

With all the wonderful weather and the outbreak of dragonflies (to say nothing of pigeon antics), I've neglected to report on the foxes. Well needless to say, they are still showing up. The old dog fox is still the most regular of them. This was taken in the early hours of Sunday night\/Monday morning.
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The nicked-ear vixen has only been sighted briefly. She seems to emerge from the rear of the garden so may be somewhere fairly local, but she's clearly not remotely in charge of the territory. The bold vixen on the other hand does hang around when she shows up, and she tends to come and go via the front of the garden. Here she is from tonight looking about as cute as can be.
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And as for the dragonflies, well I had another excellent day with them. The numbers are still some way from the height of the season, but as well as the garden damsels, I saw my first ever hairy dragonfly (honestly, that's its name), and my first sighting of the season of the broad-bodied chasers.
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<\/span> Broad-bodied chaser<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Large red damselfly<\/span><\/p>\n

One other piece of news to report. I've been pointed in the direction of a nesting herring gull, with a perfect (but safely distant) view of the nest. I should be able to watch as the young emerge and follow their development. Here's a shot from today.
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Camera note: The old dog fox was photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM + Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter; the vixen was the same lens but no teleconverter. The hairy dragonfly and broad-bodied chaser were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens (I added an extension tube for the chaser); the damsel was taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro + full set of extension tubes and ring-flash; and the gulls were captured with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS. Phew!<\/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":[77,4],"tags":[1148,1128,68],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","category-foxes","tag-dragonfly","tag-fox","tag-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t