{"id":2020,"date":"2011-08-14T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2020"},"modified":"2013-11-08T20:18:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:18:28","slug":"foxes-in-the-field-photo-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/foxes-in-the-field-photo-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxes in the field (photo special)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->On the basis that if the foxes won&#39;t come to me I need to go to them, I went back to the local fields this afternoon to see what I could find. After about half an hour with very little to photograph other than a distant kestrel and some sheep, I was heading for another location when I glanced back across the fields and spotted something interesting in the distance. The foxes (three of them) are on the right of the shot. There are a couple of pheasants in the foreground.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408112767.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I slowly made my way back down the path and across the field to get a better vantage point. The adult fox is at the back of the shot. The two playful ones are cubs, around 5 months old I would think.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408112801.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I continued to close in&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408112932.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I eventually found a spot where I had an excellent but very restricted view through the dense boundary hedge. A lot of the time the foxes scampered out of view&#8230; but not all the time. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408112939.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408113042.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This next shot has a couple of interesting features in it. The standing cub has strikingly white paws. And the other cub has what appears to be a large tick just above its eye. Not pleasant, but the eye itself seemed clear (when I could see it). Hopefully the tick will eventually gorge itself and fall off without lasting harm. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408113046.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408113048.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I was watching them for about 30 minutes, the fun only ending when someone rode by on horseback. I was startled, and so were the foxes!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fox_field_1408113115.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 EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1128,771],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-wildlife","tag-fox","tag-tick","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}