{"id":1411,"date":"2009-06-08T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1411"},"modified":"2013-11-14T00:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T00:37:21","slug":"a-couple-of-vixens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-couple-of-vixens\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of vixens"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I was just arriving at work this morning when I caught a glimpse of the Campus Vixen. I was near her den, so stopped the car and looked around. It took a while to spot her. She was hiding in the nearby undergrowth. There was probably too much traffic about for her to approach, including a van which parked across the path she would have taken. So these shots are the best I could manage through the heavy vegetation. And yes, as ever, she has a rabbit.
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I did hang around for a few minutes to see if she would emerge, but without any success. It was good to see that she's still around, and that she's being sensibly cautious of the traffic.<\/p>\n

Tonight it's raining heavily (oh the joy that is the British summer), and I've only taken brief forays into the garden. The Bold Vixen did pass through, looking somewhat bedraggled and muddy. I risked the rain for a couple of minutes. This first shot is taken from the shelter of the back door.
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And then at the back of the garden…
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I'm fascinated by the differences in how the urban and rural foxes get by. The garden foxes are primarily scavengers, and though they do hunt I suspect a large part of their diet is 'found' food, with a regular circuit being followed on a nightly basis. The campus and downland foxes on the other hand are adept hunters. I've posted this picture before, but I think it encapsulates the rural fox in its element. It's a shot of a vixen taken in mid-May. Which makes three vixens in this post, not two.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: the campus vixen was photographed with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens, as was the closing shot. I had the shorter EF 24-105 F4L IS USM on the camera tonight.<\/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":[4,8],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-rabbit","tag-fox","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