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 April 28, 2010
The cubs are starting to become a little bolder. They’re seen in the following videos “helping” their mother gather some food, and then making their way out to feed without her — although they’re still much happier when she’s around.
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Posted By Foxy Lady on April 28, 2010
One of the good things about working from home is that I can keep an eye on the fox cubs. One of the less good things is that I run the risk of losing an hour of my day watching small cute furry things in the garden…!
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Posted By Foxy Lady on April 27, 2010
The cubs are starting to venture out and explore a little bit — they seem to particularly enjoy a pile of tiles in one corner of the garden, which is rapidly becoming a fox cub adventure playground…
(Disclaimer on photo quality: the light was going, there’s only so much image stabilisation can do, and our windows really need a clean…)
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Posted By Foxy Lady on April 21, 2010
Being a bit of a sad geek, I have deployed Technology (in the shape of an infra-red video/still camera) to help me keep tabs on our resident foxes. Last night I was repaid:
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Posted By Foxy Lady on April 14, 2010
I’ve just been out into the garden and, as has happened quite often lately, there was a *rustle*crash* as of something seeing me and legging it over the back fence. This time, that something was slow enough that I could tell it was one of the local foxes.
But there was still a bit of rustling in the undergrowth near the shed, and I cautiously went nearer to see if I could see what it was.
Fox cub! We have at least one (might be two) little fox cub(s), sweet pointy ears, tiny little thing. It was very scared, and still grey (they don’t start off red; they turn that colour when they’re a few weeks old). I backed off, but will be watching with interest…