Fox vs mobile…
Foxy Lady | February 21, 2024
Okay, this one is not technically a “garden” fox, rather in woodland, but if he wanted a mobile phone then he definitely counts as “urban”! Fox steals RSPCA rescuer’s phone
Garden Fox Watch
Watching a family of foxes growing up in my back garden.
City foxes braver but not smarter than rural cousins, apparently
Foxy Lady | August 10, 2023
The study, published in Animal Behaviour, left puzzles in foxes’ habitats for them to solve to get rewards of food. City foxes were more likely to touch the puzzles but both sets of foxes were equally likely — or unlikely — to solve them. I strongly suspect that the city foxes thought “nah… can’t be […]
“Loving” foxes
Foxy Lady | February 18, 2022
Seen on Petapixel, some great photos of foxes together as taken by Roeselien Raimond…
The British Library’s top sound of 2021…
Foxy Lady | December 14, 2021
… was, apparently, the sound of a fox screaming — listen to it here. (The rest of the BL’s top picks can be seen here.) I’m slightly surprised that there are urban-dwellers who don’t know what foxes sound like! 😉
Lovely foxes on the BBC
Foxy Lady | May 27, 2020
For those of you with access to BBC Iplayer, you should take a look at yesterday’s edition. There is a lovely article starting at about 48:30 into the program talking to Mark Mason Gardner, who enjoys watching the foxes in his London garden from a purpose-built hide accessible to his wheelchair. His resident vixen is […]
2018’s cubs, at last
Foxy Lady | June 23, 2018
It feels like these little guys are a bit later than usual making an appearance. We weren’t sure whether there were cubs at all this year; we’d seen the local adults around quite a bit, but it wasn’t until a couple of days ago that we saw a cub with them — at a point […]
Accidental fox cubs…
Foxy Lady | April 20, 2018
“Mark Bucknell says he found the animals about a month ago abandoned behind some straw bales in a shed at his farm near Newquay, Cornwall. He took them inside thinking they were his spaniel Ruby’s puppies as she had already started producing milk and mothering them.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43843863
Foxheaven (Dublin)
Foxy Lady | July 17, 2017
There’s a lovely live stream on YouTube that shows foxes coming to a Dublin garden for food and play in the evenings and overnight. The actual live stream’s URL changes, but the channel for the person who runs it is here and you will find the currently-live stream linked from there. Enjoy!
“Only hunt groups care about foxes”
Foxy Lady | July 17, 2017
From BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40632948. I believe the word we’re looking for here is, approximately, “bollocks”. Even the (Tory) MP into whose constituency Fox Towers falls admitted he’d had dozens of letters from constituents insisting that the hunting ban be kept the last time they floated the concept of repealing it.
“Curious cat finds fox cub under sofa”
Foxy Lady | July 17, 2017
From BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40013177