{"id":26009,"date":"2017-07-05T23:53:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=26009"},"modified":"2017-07-05T23:53:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T22:53:44","slug":"little-dog-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/little-dog-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Dog Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far as I can tell there are five fox cubs visiting the garden (at least according to the trail camera). We&#8217;re getting to know them quite well. There&#8217;s the Little Vixen (fine-boned and very pretty and very bold), Black Tail (who has an amazing dark brush), Long Face (who is lightly coloured), a second vixen who visits less frequently than the rest and who I haven&#8217;t yet named&#8230;  and this little chap we call the &#8216;little dog fox&#8217;.  He has a permanently wizened look about him, as though his brow is permanently in a furrow. He was quite dominant as a young cub, but more recently has stayed away from the main group. This evening he made a lengthy visit (on his own) which is when I took this sequence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176175.jpg\" alt=\"Fox cub in long grass\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176175.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176175-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176190.jpg\" alt=\"Fox cub in the grass\" width=\"900\" height=\"754\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176190.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176190-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176200.jpg\" alt=\"Fox cub in the grass\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176200.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_cub_0507176200-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was back again tonight with three of the others, so perhaps his confidence is building. He does seem to get bullied though.<\/p>\n<p>I also got a rare sighting of the adult dog fox, who made a brief appearance at the rear of the garden while four of the youngsters were congregating near our back door! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_0507176426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_0507176426.jpg\" alt=\"Adult dog fox\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_0507176426.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fox_0507176426-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll focus on the others over the next few posts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D  Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM  lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far as I can tell there are five fox cubs visiting the garden (at least according to the trail camera). We&#8217;re getting to know them quite well. There&#8217;s the Little Vixen (fine-boned and very pretty and very bold), Black Tail (who has an amazing dark brush), Long Face (who is lightly coloured), a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-cub","category-foxes","category-wildlife","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26009","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=26009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}