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 25, 2010
First of all, with a hat-tip to @Lofty_Jen on Twitter: A clever fox turned the tables on a photographer. That photographer was significantly more relaxed than I would have been if an animal started clambering over my tripod!
Secondly, not news as such, but one of the participants on PostCrossing, a postcard swap site, has a really impressive collection of fox postcards…
Posted By Foxy Lady on August 25, 2010
No, it is not the foxes who are soggy — well, they probably are, but they’ve not been out much in the recent wet weather, and really, do you blame them? The garden is decidedly damp, though, and thus it’s much easier to dig holes in the lawn to bury your food in. If you’re a fox.
A quick peek at the overnight Foxcam footage from a couple of nights back revealed that one of the cubs we thought had moved on had returned for a visit — there were three small foxes enjoying the food instead of two. I assume it was another of the original four who had returned, otherwise there would have been ructions… Whether he or she is around again regularly remains to be seen.
I’m still working through the backlog of photos. Here are just a little set from mid-June (as in, over two months ago!). Yes, numbers two and three are different — just not very different…
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 😉