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 August 20, 2010
I note a story in today’s Coventry Telegraph about a lady who wants to make sure that whoever buys her house keeps feeding the foxes in her garden. Aww 😉 (with a tip of the hat to @joehewison on Twitter)
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 19, 2010
A little more Foxcam footage for you, this evening, from a couple of days ago. The truce between the cats and the foxes really only works if the fox does not try to creep up on the cats; also, the two currently-resident fox cubs do still play with one another — or torment one another, which is probably about the same thing.
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 11, 2010
The Evening Standard (and various other outlets) reports yesterday on a very relaxed fox spotted on a lilo in a pool… what next, foxes with cocktails?
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 9, 2010
Here are some photos for June 20th. The cub who I have mentally dubbed “Ears” (yes, I know I said I wasn’t going to name them, but (a) she’s still around and (b) she seems to have this habit of spending most of her time with her ears back) was checking out what remained of the garden hose. This was the hose which the cubs, between them, had thoroughly chewed; we have since acquired another one which lives on a hose reel rather than being left out across the garden 😉
Scroll on down for cute fox ears, fox tongue… generally cute foxage. (If that’s not a word, it should be.)
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 5, 2010
Just a little set for you today, from June 18th. One of the cubs decided that one of the larger holes in our lawn was the most FASCINATING thing and decided to keep a watchful eye on it for a while….
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 2, 2010
We’re only seeing two of this year’s cubs in the garden regularly at the moment; not the other two, not the vixen. (I’m slightly surprised the vixen hasn’t stuck around.)
1) Tonight I saw one of the cubs mounting the other. I imagine they’ve not really reached sexual maturity yet, but, little ones? Not good to be that closely related. Go find another clan to breed with.
2) On Saturday night at least one of the foxes was traipsing back and forth through the front garden (and setting off the security light each time). Except, when I looked out, one of the foxes was sat on our gatepost. “FOXES FED HERE”. Didn’t quite have the sign, but so cute! All we needed was one of the other cubs sat on the other side 😉
Posted By Foxy Lady on July 31, 2010
Photos from June 17th, here. Mostly the fox family were relaxing on the lawn, but I am really not sure quite what one of the cubs was licking up from the patio in the last few — and no, this is not related to the furry clean-up squad incident on which I reported earlier on in the month. I suppose some fat might have dripped from something being barbecued…
Posted By Foxy Lady on July 30, 2010
1) I see there has been another report in the media about someone being attacked by a fox. I’m sure it’s deeply unpleasant for the person concerned, but I also don’t believe that all the foxes in the UK have unilaterally decided that 2010 is going to be The Year They Bite People. I’m currently investigating whether it’s possible to obtain data on how many people have been treated for dog bites versus how many have been treated for fox bites; if I’m successful I’ll let you know.
2) The foxes are getting fussy in their old age, tch. It used to be that when I put bread out as part of their food, that would get eaten as quickly as anything else, but they’re starting to leave it for the birds more, now. Might be that it was stale and hard, as opposed to mouldy; ah, the fox as gourmet…