{"id":1179,"date":"2008-07-23T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1179"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:48:03","slug":"three-fox-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/three-fox-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Fox Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s not often I get to see all three of the local foxes in one day, but last night was one of those rare occasions. The first visitor was the old dog fox, who came by, scratched a bit but didn&#39;t hang around for long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_dog_2207089057.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_dog_2207089057.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The old dog fox<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next to show up was the bold vixen, looking as charming as ever and happy to pose for the camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_bold_vixen_2207089097.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_bold_vixen_2207089097.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">The bold vixen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#39;t alone for long though. Unexpectedly, the nicked-ear vixen emerged from the border on the left. The bold vixen immediately became anxious. She&#39;s at the bottom left of this next photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_vixen_x2_2207089102.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_vixen_x2_2207089102.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Two vixens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a better shot of the pair of them. Note how both of them have their tails curled in a somewhat submissive posture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_vixen_x2_2207089105.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_vixen_x2_2207089105.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for general dominance, I think the laurels have to go to nicked-ear. Here she is closing in on the bold vixen&#39;s favourite spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_2207089114.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_2207089114.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Nicked-ear vixen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which sent the bold vixen scurrying down to where we were for a bit of security in numbers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_bold_vixen_2207089116.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_bold_vixen_2207089116.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A more complete sequence from last night is towards the end of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">July Fox Gallery<\/a>, but I&#39;ll close this entry with one last looked at nicked-ear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/slides\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_2207089124.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/fox_july2008\/album\/fox_nicked_ear_vixen_2207089124.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">On the high ground<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF24-105mm f\/4L 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-1179","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\/1179","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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}