I really enjoyed a short session at dusk this evening photographing Terry's foxes that even though I have only seen them twice now, I am getting to know. But what was nice to see was this handsome young dog fox. I am assuming that it is an animal from last year, compared to the adolescent gangly cubs it's plain to see that it is older. It has a really nice rich patterned coat with prominant black facial markings and a distinct demarcation mark between red and white on the face. The legs are distinctly black and at the end of the bushy tail..... the brush ..... is a lovely white tip, as though it has been dipped in white emulsion. As you have probably gathered, I really do appreciate the beauty of this animal. What was more, this fox didn't come in to the scraps, bits of bread and the like, but it came to eat the plum windfalls.
He was eating windfall plums, and I saw him with four before he got wind of me. Thats a very intersting phrase which is exactly the correct context because he literally did "get wind of me" and off he ran. Here he is eating a plum.
This is not one of your urban foxes that seem to be so reviled but a truly wild animal that lives in the woods and fields. I am very attracted to foxes, they are intelligent and wily and I really don't like the idea of them being indiscriminantly shot. I am pleased that people like Terry also enjoy having them around.
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