{"id":1133,"date":"2008-05-16T19:05:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1133"},"modified":"2013-11-20T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T21:54:06","slug":"a-busy-night-with-the-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-busy-night-with-the-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"A busy night with the foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Late last night (well actually, the early hours of this morning) the foxes were active. Just after midnight we looked outside and the old faithful of the pack was sitting in one of his usual spots near the back door. Nothing unusual in that, except that he was hyper alert and kept an ear cocked for sounds that seemed to be coming from the side of the house. Scuffling sounds. Fox sounds.<\/p>\n

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He didn't stay long, but as we watched we could see a second fox to the front of the building. After a brief pause, both shot off across the road at speed. Nice to see them run like that. It's not something that happens too often in the garden. Their distinctive calls followed a moment later. Watching from the front window we finally caught sight of him disappearing into one of the gardens opposite. We were then treated by the sight of two more foxes criss-crossing the gardens along the street, pausing every now and then for a quick scratch on the grass verges, and nipping quickly across the road. They did this for several minutes. Fortunately this is a fairly quiet area, and generally traffic isn't a problem. Moments like that tempt me to get a night-vision video camera, but I'll probably resist the temptation. I have enough trouble keeping up with the photos \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

We eventually lost sight of them behind the parked cars and garden walls. Not for long though. They both reappeared in a rather more familiar location (for me at least).<\/p>\n

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The fox in the front is the bold young vixen. The nicked-ear vixen, who again showed that she is the submissive member of the group, is sitting behind. Throughout the visit 'nicked-ear' was by far the more cautious, tending to hand back or retreat further up the garden. <\/p>\n

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Still no sign of cubs. If there are any, they are some distance away and we're unlikely to see them until they start roaming (if at all).<\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the EF70-300mm f\/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM 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-1133","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\/1133","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=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}