{"id":678,"date":"2006-07-15T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/678"},"modified":"2013-12-03T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T22:46:50","slug":"fox-cub-catches-a-frog-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fox-cub-catches-a-frog-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox cub catches a frog (photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I  was in the garden this afternoon, my main reason being to bury another rabbit pelt that had been discarded at the rear of the garden. I&#39;m fairly sure these are wild rabbits, which are plentiful in this area. <\/p>\n<p>Our small pond is home to numerous frogs and newts, and attracts a good deal of wildlife. The garden at this time of year is throbbing with life, from blackbirds and chaffinches (not to mention the wood pigeons and collared doves), to grasshoppers, damsel flies, and a veritable storm of butterflies. We also see occasional slow-worms. Plus of course snails, and less commonly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/thrush_140506011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">thrushes<\/a> which bash the living daylights out of them. So generally, it&#39;s very healthy out there, and a great and fertile hunting ground for the foxes.<\/p>\n<p>While I was out there this afternoon, one of the cubs put in an appearance (probably the same one featured in last week&#39;s &#39;country cub&#39; entry, though it&#39;s not always easy to tell). It was very warm, the cub was somewhat restless, and after a while it decided to wander near the pond. While I was watching, he darted behind a shrub. There was a short &#39;squeak&#39;, and then he emerged with something in his mouth. He&#39;d caught a mature frog, and after a moment gathered it in his mouth before proudly trotting off through a gap in the fence. The whole episode was over in a second or two, and the kill was immensely efficient on the fox&#39;s part. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frogs_150706029sm.jpg\" alt=\"cubs_frogs_150706029sm\" width=\"540\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frogs_150706029sm.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frogs_150706029sm-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Capture<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706-030.jpg\" alt=\"cubs_frog_150706 030\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706-030.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706-030-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Fox cub with frog<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706030sm.jpg\" alt=\"cubs_frog_150706030sm\" width=\"445\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706030sm.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/cubs_frog_150706030sm-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"aligncenter\">Detail<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/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":[15,4,86],"tags":[1142,1128,41],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behaviour","category-foxes","category-frog","tag-cub","tag-fox","tag-frogs","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}