Foxy Lady | April 23, 2025
While the weather was a bit batter last week, we had more chances to see the cubs in light good enough to take pictures! They were, and are this week, still very bouncy. (We have seen the first cub make it as far as the patio, though he or she dashed back into the undergrowth […]
Foxy Lady | April 15, 2025
For a variety of reasons — bad weather, too much vegetation, etc. — I’ve struggled to get decent pictures of the local fox cubs for the last couple of years. But no more! This year, not only have they been visible a little earlier than in some years, but we are reasonably confident they’re actually […]
Foxy Lady | June 4, 2021
We were having lunch a couple of days ago when we spotted an unusual visitor to our bird table…! We are reasonably sure that no birds were harmed — they would have flown away long before this vixen had made it up there — but surely bird food isn’t that appetising for foxes? (It’s not […]
Foxy Lady | June 3, 2020
According to an article on the BBC here, new research shows that urban foxes are tending to have smaller brains and a differently-shaped snout to their country cousins — smaller brains because they do not need to pursue so many different types of prey, different snout as an adaptation for urban foraging. We haven’t been […]
Foxy Lady | May 11, 2020
Good thing the camera can cope acceptably with low light if you ask it nicely….! Mum and two of the cubs decided to come out and check out the food, but first the cubs decided they weren’t weaned just yet!
Foxy Lady | May 10, 2020
It was a nice sunny day on Friday (which is more than can be said around Fox Towers today, at least). And the cubs decided to come out and show themselves in the sunshine. We have at least four — I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least one more waiting to show itself, […]
Foxy Lady | May 6, 2020
It’s a strange world you’re coming into, kid, but welcome anyhow…
Foxy Lady | January 13, 2019
One of our local foxes decided to come and investigate the house the other evening. Sitting on the back doorstep, they looked as though they were considering whether it would be warmer inside and possibly also have food — but the door was of course closed. One of our cats came over to investigate and […]
Foxy Lady | February 7, 2018
Although it’s been quite chilly here the past few days, it has been sunny for much of the time. With the sun come the foxes — well, they come out from their dens, anyhow — and they seem to find the roof of our shed a good place to sunbathe. Possibly the tar-paper covering it […]
Foxy Lady | December 18, 2017
It is, by this point, a fairly old and knackered shed. (I won’t be surprised to find the foxes living in, rather than under, it one of these years.) But its tar-papered roof still provides a handy sun-trap and vantage point for the foxes at this time of year.