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.
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 25, 2010
Good morning, folks! Merry Christmas from all at Fox Towers. Since you’ve not had much video from me just lately (short days, bad light), a little Christmas present; I spotted Ears hunting in the snow on Monday. Problem was, when she found her food, she couldn’t decide whether to eat it or play with it…
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 24, 2010
Picture the scene. Foxy Lady and Mr Fox are sitting at the table, eating their dinner, when Ears potters along the patio and sits down outside the patio doors, looking hopeful. (She does this quite often, and occasionally it’ll work and she’ll get some food thrown out onto the patio for her.)
Our lardier cat is sitting by the doors in the dining room, watching Ears…
… the music swells…
…they are just two lonely souls separated by, um, some double glazing.
Ears licks the window. No, I have no idea why she does this either; it’s not as though it would have any nutritional value.
Lardy Cat reaches a paw out towards the fox tongue on the other side of the glass.
It was like a scene from some bizarre prison movie, with the prisoner and his visitor on opposite sides of the bullet-proof glass, except that I don’t think either of these two could have held a phone handset.
Um, anyway. My apologies for the photo quality; my camera wasn’t within reach so these were off my phone 😉
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…
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…
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:
Within the US:
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.
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.
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!
Posted By Foxy Lady on December 8, 2010
OK, and people are worried about foxes? In Chicago, they have coyotes…
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…