{"id":2463,"date":"2012-12-02T23:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T23:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2463"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:35:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:35:01","slug":"wild-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wild-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

All the regular foxes I post here are wild foxes, but while I love seeing them in the garden there's always something special about seeing a fox in its natural habitat. By natural I mean of course, woodland or downland. To foxes, living in towns is perfectly natural. They are, after all, one of the most successful animals on the planet and have adapted to Arctic and tropical conditions with barely a pause for thought (evolutionary speaking). Living in towns is just one facet of that adaptability, and town or urban foxes are generally much easier to see than their more rural cousins. So, it's a treat to see one in a rural setting, as I did this afternoon.<\/p>\n

I was out on some local downland, hoping to see kestrels. I found a fairly high vantage point to give a better view across the valley when a slight movement in the distance caught my attention.
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I would guess that it was out looking for one of these.
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I lost sight of the fox in the undergrowth, and though I hung around for about an hour it didn't return. There were no kestrels either, but I did catch sight of a green woodpecker. The first shot is typical of what you generally see… a fast retreating flash of yellow rump.
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What you really want to see is this.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM 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":[980,4,8],"tags":[1128,222,1130],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-rabbit","tag-fox","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-rabbit","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