{"id":1385,"date":"2009-05-10T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T22:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1385"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T21:25:15","slug":"the-fox-in-the-valley-and-other-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-fox-in-the-valley-and-other-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fox in the Valley and other sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

After a very quiet Saturday (photo-wise), I took some time this afternoon to go to the local valley to search out kestrels. I was out of luck where they were concerned, but I headed back to the area where last week<\/a> I saw a fox take a rabbit. He wasn't there (what are the odds of that, really?), but as I headed a little further south I spotted a lone fox trotting across some open ground. <\/p>\n

\"fox\"Fox in the valley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"fox\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"fox\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It's impossible to be certain, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same male I saw last week. I lost sight of him as he went over a ridge and by the time I got across to where he'd been he had disappeared into the undergrowth. <\/p>\n

Earlier in the week I mentioned the orange-tip butterflies<\/a>, which seem to be having an extremely good year. I saw more today, and finally got a decent shot of the female showing the patterned underwing.
<\/span> Female orange-tip butterfly<\/span><\/p>\n

This evening I was out checking the trail cam when my attention was caught by some very loud snuffling coming from the back of the garden. It turned out to be a pair hedgehogs, busily doing very little at all (presumably looking for grubs) and making a great noise about it. It's the first time I've seen the pair together, though the trail cam did beat me to it a couple of weeks back. The one you can see properly in this photo was making most of the noise. <\/p>\n

\"twoTwo hedgehogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, I'll close tonight with a short video clip picked up over night. It's another 'bat' moment. I can't believe these trigger the camera, so something must have moved past just before it turned up. <\/p>\n

<\/object><\/span>Bat<\/span>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: The fox and butterfly were taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens supported by the Manfrotto 685B Neotec monopod and 234RC tilt head. The hedgehogs were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens and Canon 430EX flash unit (set to manual to avoid the pre-flash).<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532,4,1003],"tags":[1184,1144,1128,1168],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bat","category-foxes","category-landscape-2","tag-bat","tag-butterfly","tag-fox","tag-hedgehog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t