{"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

On the basis that if the foxes won'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.
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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.
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I continued to close in…
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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… but not all the time.
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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.
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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!
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t