Foxes eat too much junk food
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 18, 2010
With a hat tip to @jamesgraham on Twitter, foxes are now apparently eating too much junk food…
Garden Fox Watch
Watching a family of foxes growing up in my back garden.
Our garden foxes...
Welcome to the Garden Fox Watch blog, detailing the life and times of the family of foxes that are growing up in our back garden.
More adoptable foxes…
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 14, 2010
Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue, who are based in Camberley in Surrey, have let me know that they too have adoptable foxes available. I’ve added them to the list…
A furry gift for the festive season
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 13, 2010
We are moving in to what is, in some circles, known as the Primary Gifting Period (according to Bill Bailey, anyway). If you’re me, that means a reasonable amount of time racking your brains as to what to buy the person who seems to have everything — or, worse, the person who says “Oh, I don’t need anything,” but you just know that, if you take them at their word, you’ll get moaned at.
Of course there is an obvious answer! You could adopt a fox for them. Below I’ve included a selection of wildlife rescue centres and other organisations who offer adoptions; if you’re a representative of an organisation that offers a similar service, please do feel free to contact me (drop me an email at info at gardenfoxwatch dot co dot uk) and I will add you to my list. (Let’s stick with red foxes only for the moment, thanks.)
Within the UK:
- Wildlife Aid. Based in Leatherhead, Surrey. £24.95.
- The Riverside Animal Centre. Based in Wallington, London; £20/year.
- Secret World. Based in Highbridge, Somerset. From £3/month.
- Lower Moss Wood Educational Nature Reserve. Based in Knutsford, Cheshire. Minimum donation of £25/year.
- The National Fox Welfare Society. Based in Rushden, Northamptonshire. £19.99.
- Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue. Based in Camberley, Surrey. £80/year.
Within the US:
- The National Wildlife Federation. (I don’t think this organisation has a single central location.) From $25.
- The Wild Animal Sanctuary. Near Keenesburg, Colorado. $10/month, $120/year.
Fox in the snow, the tail end
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 12, 2010
This is the last of the set of photos from Friday 3rd. As I originally mentioned, this started out as six hundred and twenty-three photos… trimming them down to seventy took a little while! If you are on the Fox Towers’ Christmas card list, you may consider some of these a sneak preview 😉
As ever, enjoy the photos and feel free to pass the link on. The first part of the set is here and the second part is here.
Fox and snow, part 2
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 11, 2010
Here is part 2 of the set of photos of Paletail enjoying the snow on Friday 3rd. Well, in fairness he was probably enjoying the chicken rather more than the snow! The first part of the set is here.
Enjoy the photos, and please do feel free to pass the link around to other people you think might be interested.
The fox and the snow
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 10, 2010
“Who lives in a garden like this?”
Like most of the rest of the UK, Fox Towers’ neck of the woods has had snow — quite a bit of snow last week, actually. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to take some lovely photos of our local foxes against a nice white background, but were they cooperating? No, friends, they were not. I knew they were still around — partly from seeing fox footprints in the snow, partly from occasional glimpses of foxes in twilight, and partly because of the infinite amount of fox food that was being consumed — but they just were not coming out in daylight. At least not when I was within reach of a camera.
Then last Friday, Paletail — one of our current residents — happened to wander out onto the lawn around lunchtime, looking for some food. Time for photos! And, since I am not above bribing the foxes to stay around for photos in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds, the remains of the previous week’s roast chicken made it out onto the lawn as well.
I’ve split the results into three posts so that they don’t take too long to load! And also I wouldn’t want you to get fox fatigue 😉 (I’m afraid I didn’t try witty titles for them, either.) The other two posts will be up either today or over the weekend.
Feel free to pass a link to the post to anyone you think might appreciate them!
A different type of urban animal
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 8, 2010
OK, and people are worried about foxes? In Chicago, they have coyotes…
Snowy foxes, coming soon…
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 6, 2010
I mentioned on Twitter on Friday that one of our foxes (PaleTail) had finally come out in daylight so that I could get some decent fox-in-the-snow pictures.
I’m just going through the pics now. There are, er, six hundred and twenty-three of them. May take me another day or so, sorry folks 😉
I do note, though, that where I’d mentally tagged PaleTail as a vixen, I was wrong; he’s a dog fox, which would explain his size if nothing else…
Foxes in hoodies – another request for help from the BBC
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 1, 2010
The BBC’s filming last night was cancelled, unfortunately (see their previous request for help) and now they’re looking to reschedule; they’d like to film somewhere in the London area that “looks urban” (which rules out Fox Towers, unfortunately; we have neither tower blocks nor foxes in hoodies) and where the foxes tend to hang around for a while. Any takers? Please contact Katy Elson again — either at katy dot elson at bbc dot co dot uk or on 0117 974 2312.
In other news, I really hope you guys are getting some nice photos of foxes in snow. Mine are being uncooperative and not coming out for their food until after dark. Come on, foxes; I need an image for the Fox Towers Christmas card!
Request for help from the BBC
Posted By Foxy Lady on November 23, 2010
Hi folks,
I’ve been contacted by Katy Elson at the BBC. She’s looking for someone with urban foxes in their back garden (or at least nearby) who might be willing to have them filmed next week (week beginning 29/11/2010) for the Springwatch Christmas Special — in an ideal world you would be fairly near Southampton, UK.
If you can help, please get in touch with Katy directly; email to katy dot elson at bbc dot co dot uk (turning that back into a more normal email address first) or call her on 0117 974 2312.
It’s got to be someone else’s turn for TV fame and fortune this time, surely 😉