Wildlife Challenge!

[coupekid]

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I'd like to add my fox to this superb collection.
Its a couple of years now since it use sit in a sunny spot at the bottom of the garden and if approached with care you could get quite close.

Best Wishes
Martin

Wowser!

You sure were lucky to have that fella at the bottom of your garden martin!

Have you seen 'words' website with his family of foxes? You guys are very lucky.....do you still see him around at all, or has he disapeared completely?

[Pol]

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I'd like to add my fox to this superb collection.
Its a couple of years now since it use sit in a sunny spot at the bottom of the garden and if approached with care you could get quite close.

Best Wishes
Martin

This is a fabulous picture - wonderful shot.

I'm very envious!

Pol

[Martin]

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Thanks - I was very lucky, there can't be many foxes that sit and pose in broad daylight. He was only about 6 or 7 yards away. I haven't seen him for a long time now. "Words" site is very good and I'm sure he works a lot harder to get his pictures than than I did.

Martin

[Words]

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Great photo Martin!

It is incredible how trusting some foxes can be. And they do love to sunbathe. But that one is a beauty.

[Pops]

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I'm a lot more envious than Pol is ....
Great shot of a pretty subject

[StuartR]

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I haven't seen him for a long time now.
Martin

Think I read somewhere that urban foxes rarely live beyond 2 or 3 years. Not sure if it's true or not. He is a beauty though. We used to have foxes in our back garden regularly until we put 6 ft fencing up. Our back garden floodlight with PIR is still referred to by my daughter (now 21) as the "fox light" because they used to set it off looking for food on the patio.

Now Lynx, our "new" rescue centre cat is the one who normally sets it off - OK so he's not, strictly speaking, wildlife but I've got the scars to show he can get pretty wild

This was taken on his first day out after 5 months captivity at the rescue centre followed by 3 weeks enforced imprisonment at home to make sure he knew where his food came from! He's looking over the open countryside behind the house and I think the enormity of it all and being free to go where he pleased was a bit of a shock for him.

[Pol]

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That's a beautiful picture, Stuart. I reckon he's having a look, summing it all up and working out his strategy to become the master of all he surveys.

Pol

[Pops]

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What a super pose that is Stuart and great capture of all that white fur

[Words]

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Hi Stuart. I'm sure your cat could see off most foxes. With good looks alone. Just beautiful!

I've read the 2-3 year estimate for foxes, but am not sure how it's derived. Certainly only a proportion of the young survive the first year. On the other hand the male adult who visits our place is at least four by our estimates (mature male when we first saw him in early 2005)

Here's today's garden visitor (a young male, born last March and the only one of seven cubs born then that we currently see).



I've put together an album with a few more from this afternoon.

[Pol]

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Just a couple of shots taken this afternoon when I was trying out the new camera with the Sigma 170-500mm.

Both cropped, more so with the Blue tit.




..... and having a good scratch as he was testing the new position of one of the nutteries.



Not very exciting shots but there y'go.

Pol

[Pops]

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Dammed inconsiderate of him to scratch like that while ya taking shots. At least you got a nice eye shot.

[StuartR]

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[quote=Words;9756]Hi Stuart. I'm sure your cat could see off most foxes. With good looks alone. Just beautiful!

I reckon he could if it came to a fight, he's the biggest domestic cat I've ever seen and weighs well over a stone which is mostly muscle as there's not much fat on him. When he stretches out in the middle of our settee you have to ask him to move his legs if you want to sit either end .

I remember when we used to get foxes in the garden regularly that we left some bones (spare ribs I think) out in a bowl for them but our cat at the time, who was quite a bit smaller than Lynx, just sat next to the bowl and faced down a big dog fox and a vixen. The foxes circled him for a while and they obviously wanted the food but in the end they gave up.

We were quite worried that they were going to attack the cat but I subsequently read that foxes always loose in a fight with a domestic cat which really surprised me. I guess our cat had come across them before because he didn't seem that concerned but they weren't having the bones - even though he didn't want them.

[StuartR]

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Here's another squirrel pic! He ate all the nuts but didn't like the raisins!



I've been watching a wren in the shrubbery outside my French doors (or are they windows?) and I'll be trying to get a shot of that over the weekend - reckon it's going to be hard though - it's so small and it's very active.

[Pol]

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Here's another squirrel pic! He ate all the nuts but didn't like the raisins!

I've been watching a wren in the shrubbery outside my French doors (or are they windows?) and I'll be trying to get a shot of that over the weekend - reckon it's going to be hard though - it's so small and it's very active.

That's a cracking good shot of the squirrel, Stuart!

Best of luck with the wren.

Pol

[Pops]

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Let us pray for what we are about to receive



Ok I got it ... now what