My friend Terry has been interacting with the Foxes that live in the woodland near to his farm. Every evening at dusk, the foxes come to look for the scraps that he pits out for them. I went the other evening to have a look and it was a really good experience. At first it was quiet, I sat in a hide overlooking the field in front of me. Terry was stood alongside throwing scraps in to the field and at first it was quiet but then after 10 minutes or so, suddenly one appeared and then started trotting towards the food.
It seems that they were on the edge of the woodland just watching and waiting. Then another one appeared and then another, just 3 in all but Terry tells me that the day after there were 5. The one above is a Vixen and I suspect that the others below are leggy adolescent cubs.
This is one of the cubs and you can see how wary it is. Terry is a familiar sight and smell to them of course but they could definitely smell me in the hide and hear the camera shutter and they didn't like it!
I felt a bit sorry for this one, it looks as though it has mange so I would suspect that it isn't enjoying a particularly comfortable existence. It looks a little bit under nourished and it's everybody's enemy (apart from Terry and me). Everyone seems to want to kill foxes but I think they are part of the ecosystem and its good to see them as far as I am concerned. I am sure they do a good job as well as bad, we would be over run with rabbits for example. Just a point about the photographs which were taken in extremely low light. Light is the photographers friend and you need as much as possible to get a fast enough shutter speed to achieve sharp mages.
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