{"id":2369,"date":"2012-08-23T00:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2369"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T22:04:54","slug":"leaping-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/leaping-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaping Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A simple fox-laden post tonight. Shy Boy appeared in the middle of the evening and proceeded to display a range of typical behaviours, including the classic leap that foxes make during hunting. I suspect his target in these shots was nothing more than a grasshopper or moth. I had the 70-300 lens on the camera and for some of the shots simply couldn&#39;t get quite enough distance between me and the fox. Anyway, these are the results, starting with a portrait of the star himself.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127215.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This first one caught me unawares!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127279.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I timed this one slightly better, but I&#39;m still too close.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127281.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Just about right, but not a full leap!<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127283.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The height of this jump caught me out.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127286.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And what better after all that exercise than a cooling drink at the local watering hole. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fox_shy_boy_2208127292.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 EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO 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":[15,4],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-foxes","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","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=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}