{"id":2284,"date":"2012-05-29T00:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2284"},"modified":"2013-11-05T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T00:14:29","slug":"dancing-foxes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dancing-foxes-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Foxes &#8211; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#39;s not often that the trail cam really does capture something spectacular. After all, it&#39;s in a fixed position and I have no control over start and finish, to say nothing of angle or position. But last night was different. A 30 second clip captured everything in the sequence. I&#39;ve seen young foxes behave like this, but never adults. The video shows a pair of vixens engaging in a &#39;fox trot&#39;, where they rear up on their hind legs and grapple. The prize in this instance was a smattering of dog biscuits. I&#39;ve added a short sound track to it from the auto-select feature on YouTube.<\/p>\n<div class=\"reactr-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fox Trot\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGXIxRy-lGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#39;s taken several years of nightly filming to get that. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>As for today, it was another warm one and the house martins were again busy collecting mud for their nests.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/house_martin_2805129052.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The swifts were chasing insect overhead.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/swift_2805129019.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And this little warbler (?) clearly has some greedy mouths to feed.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/warbler_2805129001.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>To close another shot from last night. I took this shortly after midnight (Sunday\/Monday). The moon was setting in the west. Apart from a lunar eclipse I can&#39;t recall ever seeing the moon this red.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/red_moon_2805128861.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 Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. 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