{"id":1435,"date":"2009-07-17T01:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1435"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:44:02","slug":"white-crow-and-lots-of-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/white-crow-and-lots-of-foxes\/","title":{"rendered":"White Crow (and lots of foxes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This was going to be just about foxes, of which more in a moment, but earlier this evening I came across a juvenile crow at Rottingdean Beach which takes pride of place in today's blog. I've seen crows sporting one or two white feathers, but never one with such extensive white feathering as this youngster. <\/p>\n

<\/span> White crow<\/span><\/p>\n

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As for the foxes, things have suddenly become active again. I caught some great activity on the trail cam overnight. There are four foxes in it. First up is 'Stumpy' the male fox with a truncated brush. He stayed for about 8 minutes grazing on peanuts and sultanas. Later, Bold showed up with two of her cubs. They had something of a riotous time, staying in the garden for around an hour. The clips give a flavour of their activities. Of course, being between 5.00am and 6.00am, I saw none of this. <\/p>\n

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I did see Bold tonight though. She stopped by for about half an hour (without cubs). She seems to have picked up an injury to her left eye (you can also notice it in the video if you look carefully). She also encountered a hedgehog, and took a close look at the trail cam (it's the first time she's seen me place it out there). She was calm, unbothered by the injury, and seemingly just looking for a bit of peace and quiet.<\/p>\n

<\/span> Relaxing<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> The bold vixen with a hedgehog<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Investigating the trail cam<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Close up of her injured eye<\/span><\/p>\n

It's impossible to know how she got the injury, but foxes are more than mildly accident prone. She wasn't worrying it or scratching (good sign), and in this shot it appears to be the lid that is swollen. In all other respects she looked well, and her brush is beginning the thicken out again.
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Camera note: crow photos taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. All the fox pictures were taken with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.<\/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":[980,4],"tags":[44,1128,523],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","tag-crow","tag-fox","tag-trail-cam","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}