{"id":755,"date":"2006-11-26T23:11:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/755"},"modified":"2013-11-30T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:58:50","slug":"possible-vixen-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/possible-vixen-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible vixen sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

We've 'officially' given up with trying to get a third mange dose into the dog fox. He isn't showing up (or if he is, it's when we're not around). Staring at an empty garden for several hours at a stretch can make you stir crazy, and to be honest if he did show at a reasonable time he'd wait around anyway. We can't leave the dose out for him, because the chances are some other fox would get there first, including it seems another adult.<\/p>\n

We glanced outside mid evening and a large fox was on the lawn. It scurried to the back of the garden when it saw us, so getting any confirmed identification (or photo) was impossible. I suspect though that it was Kinky, the vixen we treated at the beginning of the year. The behaviour was the giveaway: come to the front of the lawn (where she got her medicine), spot us lurking behind the door and then scarper to the steps at the rear of the garden, a long stare in our direction and then off. If it is her, then the odds are that she has plans to use the same earth as last year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The young fox, by the way, came by again<\/p>\n

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I've been experimenting a bit with camera settings, and when I'm up close I've been turning the flash as low as it will go. It gives a nice soft image, and keeps the background virtually unlit. Makes for decent portrait shots. <\/p>\n

I also managed a couple of decent photos of gulls in flight today, and another totally blurred Sparrowhawk. That sparrowhawk<\/a> is becoming even more of a challenge than the woodpeckers because it simply won't fly in range of my camera.<\/p>\n

I'll only inflict one of the pictures on you here. If you want to look, the rest are on an experimental page<\/a> I've created on my main site. I need to work on the template, but it should save me a lot of time with my main fox galleries once I've sorted out some of the quirks. The page is made with an ancient version of Arles Image Web Page Creator<\/a> (I'm using version 3.3).<\/p>\n

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