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 July 17, 2017
From BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40632948.
I believe the word we’re looking for here is, approximately, “bollocks”. Even the (Tory) MP into whose constituency Fox Towers falls admitted he’d had dozens of letters from constituents insisting that the hunting ban be kept the last time they floated the concept of repealing it.
Posted By Foxy Lady on July 17, 2017
From BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-40013177
Posted By Foxy Lady on March 26, 2017
Not sure if we have a breeding pair in our garden this year, but on a recent sunny day we were visited by two of the local crew, pottering around for food and enjoying the weather. The first of them (the first six photos) did also sit down for a while, but those photos didn’t come out so well.
Posted By Foxy Lady on November 29, 2016
Posted By Foxy Lady on October 27, 2016
So we had some leftover stew that none of the humans wanted; we figured we’d see whether the local foxes fancied it. Oh yes. Definitely. The elapsed time from it being put out to the appearance of (one of) our friendly fox(es) was somewhat less than ten minutes. (The magpies turned up only a little afterwards, but they didn’t want to tangle with the fox!)
This fox is looking pretty well-fed; plumping up for the colder weather, I suppose.
Posted By Foxy Lady on June 5, 2016
There was a great article in yesterday’s Guardian about “everyday foxism” (which is a terrific, and accurate, phrase) — read it here.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 22, 2016
So late last month, Mrs Fox — for, in this set, we have definite evidence of her being female, in the form of obvious nipples — took some time out to sunbathe and prowl the garden to see what food was out there…
We’ve still not seen any sign of cubs in our garden, though they are doubtless in the local area! But our friend the Bad Witch is lucky enough to have a cub playing in her garden recently — here’s the evidence!
Posted By Foxy Lady on April 21, 2016
Why yes, it has been a while, hasn’t it?
We don’t know whether we have foxes living in our garden at the moment, but we certainly have regular visitors; see below. (The first evening with decent light, the camera at hand, and a fox who decided to turn up in a while.) This one was certainly keen on the rather elderly roast chicken that we’d decided to recycle by leaving it out for them. Mind you, so were the local magpies!
Hoping we might see some cubs in the next few weeks, although it is a bit early yet, I think.
Posted By Foxy Lady on September 13, 2015
Hi folks! Been a while, hasn’t it — the local foxes have not chosen our garden as their territory just lately, so we’ve not had any pretty pictures to share. But we do have some from a friend of the blog, Ms Vixen, who lives a couple of towns away; their local foxes have raised two cubs this year and, well, as you’ll see below, they’re really quite friendly!
Ms Vixen’s family includes a cat, who is entirely happy for the foxes to hang around in his garden; if nothing else, it apparently discourages some of the other local cats from coming in to beat her cat up!
(No… the fox has not yet tried to use the cat’s litter tray.)
Thanks to Ms Vixen for sending these over!