{"id":1778,"date":"2010-11-17T23:11:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T23:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1778"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T10:38:40","slug":"once-again-a-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/once-again-a-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, a Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s been well over a week since I&#39;d seen a fox in the garden, and without a trail cam to monitor what I don&#39;t see it&#39;s been a little frustrating. But tonight changed that. A new trail cam arrived today (a Bushnell Trophy, for those interested) and it&#39;s outside now doing its stuff (I hope). I&#39;ll see whether I set it up properly tomorrow. Even better news is that while I was standing out in the rain, Bold decided to put in an appearance. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fox_bold_1711109688.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Yes, she&#39;s wet (so was I), but what really caught my eye was that the dark patches that she sported all last winter have returned. I think I first noticed them late December last year, so this year they&#39;ve appeared about a month earlier. Either it&#39;s a physical thing (hormones?), or it&#39;s connected with wherever she builds her den; and if that&#39;s the case, then I presume it will be in the same location as last year. And no, I don&#39;t know where it is. Still, she was looking well, and despite the awful weather was in no hurry to leave.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fox_bold_1711109749.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fox_bold_1711109787.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One thing you can say about foxes is that do help keep the rodent population down. Regent&#39;s Park clearly is suffering from a vulpine shortage.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_x2_1711109541.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Though I am getting plenty of photos of an animal I&#39;d scarcely seen before, let alone been able predict and start to plan and compose shots.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rat_1711109541.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: the rat shots were taken with the EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM. The fox was photographed 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":[4,781],"tags":[1128,1183],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-rats","tag-fox","tag-rat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}