{"id":1858,"date":"2011-02-26T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1858"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T18:35:23","slug":"fox-and-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fox-and-hedgehog\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox and Hedgehog"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#39;ve been seeing more evidence of the hedgehogs on the trail cam but tonight was the first opportunity this year to photograph this regular garden visitor. It was raining, and misty, verging on fog. Not ideal, so this shot (and the ones that follow) have been fairly heavily processed to produce the image. They are far from perfect, but given the conditions I&#39;m pleased to have managed anything at all.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/hedgehog_2502115281.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I wasn&#39;t the only one to see the hedgehog. The young male fox, no longer limping by the way, made a bee-line for the spiny interloper. The hedgehog rapidly curled into a ball to sit it out. Given the persistence of the fox tonight, this may not be the best policy in the long run. This sequence was accompanied by loud hissing from the hedgehog.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fox_young_male_hedgehog_2502115295.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fox_young_male_hedgehog_2502115300.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fox_young_male_hedgehog_2502115309.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fox_young_male_hedgehog_2502115324.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The fox eventually gave up, and the hedgehog scurried away through the fence. Given the fox&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/animal-behaviour-fox-and-hedgehogs\" target=\"_blank\">parentage<\/a> (Bold is his mother), I do fear for the &#39;hog. <\/p>\n<p>And to give you an idea of the conditions out there tonight, this final shot of  the fox retreating is more or less untreated.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fox_young_male_2502115332.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 7D and 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":[4,282],"tags":[1128,1168],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-hedgehog","tag-fox","tag-hedgehog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","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=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}