{"id":840,"date":"2007-05-13T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/840"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T21:01:25","slug":"fleeting-cub-sighting-no-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fleeting-cub-sighting-no-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeting cub sighting (no photo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Having sat through the annual ritual of watching the Eurovision voting without having heard or seen a single act, I popped outside into the garden. As I approached the back of the garden I saw the briefest glimpse of the rear end of a low level pale red mammal disappearing across the path toward the fence. A cub!!! It had to be. Ok it was dark, and &#39;glimpse&#39; exaggerates the length of time I saw it, but I did see it. <\/p>\n<p>Back inside to get the camera, try a couple of test shots at 1600 ISO, manual focus, and no flash (just a torch on the ground.) Yes it should work. Now sit and wait. Sure enough, something appeared. <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fox_1305072235.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">An adult fox&#8230;grrrr<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was the adult, Roofy as I&#39;m beginning to think of him. He gathered up the small amount of food I&#39;d left out and disappeared again. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/fox_1305072237.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But we waited, hearing strange rustling from a nearby garden. Eventually the noises came closer and we were rewarded by a brief proper sighting of Roofy and a cub cutting across the very rear of the garden. No chance of a photo (well there was a chance but I missed it miserably, and the fleeting glimpse as the cub headed back under the fence). But a clear view of a young cub out with &#39;dad&#39;. No doubt about it this time.<\/p>\n<p>We waited for about 20 minutes more, but other than Roofy, no further signs of the cub. No doubt though there will be plenty more opportunities. From what I could see the cub was certainly larger than those I first saw last year, which suggests that it&#39;s 7 or 8 weeks old, and probably located slightly further away than they were last year. But not too far away \ud83d\ude42<\/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":[4],"tags":[272,1128],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-cubs","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}