{"id":2268,"date":"2012-05-13T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2268"},"modified":"2013-11-05T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:17:29","slug":"in-the-course-of-one-night-meet-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/in-the-course-of-one-night-meet-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"In the course of one night&#8230; meet the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We&#39;ll start with Shutterbug, who I am going to assume is &#39;Dad&#39;. Here he is last night. The bright flash in the background is my camera flash, photographing him from the other side.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_shutterbug_1105120029.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The second member of the family, and really the most important, is Mama Vixen. She&#39;s still very shy, but is a regular on the trail cam images.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_mamavixen_1105120058.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The third member of the family is the subordinate vixen, possibly a sibling of Mama Vixen, her role will be to help out with the cubs. Due to the relatively poor state of her brush (and as an early means of differentiating the two females) she&#39;s become known as the Skinny Vixen. She&#39;s as shy as Mama, but an equally frequent trail cam subject.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_skinnyvixen_1105120069.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are two more (at least) members of this particular tribe. Very small, but ever so cute. There may be more of them, but I can&#39;t be sure yet.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_cub_x2_1105120013.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One last shot in this selection. Mama and Cub.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fox_vixen_cub_1205120076.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 \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Bushnell Trophy Cam.<\/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":[4,3],"tags":[1142,1128],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-wildlife","tag-cub","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","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=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}