{"id":1938,"date":"2011-05-21T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1938"},"modified":"2013-11-09T15:17:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:17:41","slug":"mainly-fox-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/mainly-fox-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainly Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The main focus of this entry is Shutterbug the fox. He spent a good amount of time in the garden this evening. I hoped that he&#39;d bring the cub with him (he didn&#39;t), but the plus was that he was in one of his independent moods and more or less completely ignored me while he explored. Before the fox photos, there&#39;s just one image from today that I want to post, as a marker for what I hope will be a longer series.<\/p>\n<p>Regular readers will remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/baby-herring-gulls\" target=\"_blank\">herring gull chicks<\/a> from previous years. Well I&#39;ve found a new roof, and a new nest to watch. No chicks yet, but the signs are good.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/gull_2005113073.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Now to the fox. After wandering around the garden he decided to settle on a sloping area which is covered with bark chippings. It&#39;s one of his favourite spots, no doubt because it&#39;s soft, dry and warm.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_2005113188.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_2005113172.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_2005113163.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Another reason he might like it is the hedge (actually, shrubby honeysuckle). Apart from the fact that he treats it as a path to burrow through to the next garden&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_2005113182.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; it also makes an excellent scratching post for getting rid of all those itches.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fox_young_male_2005113191.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m sure the cub will be along later (probably too late for me), and possibly the badger which is again turning up most nights. I may yet take one final look; after all , it is the weekend.<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 EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens, except for the gull which was photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM 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":[4,989],"tags":[1128,1158],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-fox","tag-herring-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","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=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}