{"id":1610,"date":"2010-04-18T22:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1610"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T23:45:10","slug":"a-fox-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-fox-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fox Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->All the recent bird activity has meant I&#39;ve had little time to report on the foxes. And yes there is more than one, though the male fox is extremely reluctant to show himself. Generally he appears late at night on the trail cam. I&#39;ve no recent photos of him. This video clip is the pair of them in the early hours of Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6QobJzY34-g&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"never\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6QobJzY34-g&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"360\" height=\"294\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" \/><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bold Vixen, in contrast to the male, has taken to spending long periods sitting in various corners of the garden during the evening, no doubt to gain some respite from hungry young cubs. I&#39;m yet to see them, and may not for a while unless they are very close by; but the vixen&#39;s behaviour suggests they are now increasingly being brought food (rather than suckled). A few nights back she passed through the garden carrying what looked like a pigeon; and any food scraps left out tend to be gathered up and carried away, or sometimes cached. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fox_bold_vixen_1804103626.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On other fronts, the threat of a return to fox hunting is becoming something of an election issue here, and is gaining some heavyweight celebrity support with Brian May (yes, of Queen fame) launching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.save-me.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Save Me<\/a> campaign. There&#39;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SaveMe2010?ref=ts#!\/SaveMe2010?v=app_10531514314&amp;ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> group (please join).<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s also a new book of research papers called &#39;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Urban-Carnivores-Ecology-Conflict-Conservation\/dp\/0801893895\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Carnivores<\/a>&#39; <i>(Eds: Gehrt, Riley, Cipher, published by John Hopkins University Press)<\/i>. The chapters cover everything from raccoons to badgers and mountain lions, and of course the urban red fox (with a few of my photos to illustrate that chapter). <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ll close with a few more of the recent photos of Bold.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fox_bold_vixen_1604103454.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fox_bold_vixen_1504103192.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fox_bold_vixen_hedgehog_1404103015.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens, except the shot of Bold making a cache which was taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS 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":[15,4,282],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}