And more cute
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 20, 2011
I shall spoil you, I tell you. More photos here, this time from April 24th. (The cubs are bigger now, but still just as cute, and I will be uploading a whole bunch more photos…)
Garden Fox Watch
Watching a family of foxes growing up in my back garden.
Our garden foxes...
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.
When they were smaller…
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 20, 2011
Start your weekend with a dose of cute! Here are some photos of the cubs from just short of a month ago – April 23rd.
And finally…
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 16, 2011
… for today, at least; have some lovely HD video of wrestling fox-cubs. Short but sweet!
Don’t eat my ear. I really mean it.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 16, 2011
Any of you who have been reading this blog for a while — or probably any time longer than a day or two — may have formed the idea that fox cubs are naturally boisterous. Well, yes. If you’re a vixen with cubs, you’ll very soon get used to being climbed on, played on, played with, and chewed.
Definitely chewed.
However, if you are a small cub, you may wish to be aware that your head will fit in your mother’s mouth… if she wanted it to.
(Yes, photos a little noisy, sorry; the light was fading fast but I thought they were amusing enough to post anyhow…)
No, that’s OUR food
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 10, 2011
I know, I know; rather behind at the moment. It’s the same problem as last year; at this time of year, we’re generating photos and video faster than I can sort through them!
On May 1st, we saw some rather unusual behaviour. Mr and Mrs Fox are both still present in the lives of their cubs, as previously mentioned. Mr Fox came out to partake of the evening’s food, and while Mrs Fox seemed quite keen that some of it should be hers and not his, one of the cubs was absolutely adamant that this was HIS food. (Or, maybe, his mother’s.) In any case, the fearsome cub — ears raked back and teeth bared — managed to quite effectively chase his father away from the feeding area… see below.
Oh, and mustn’t forget…
Posted By Foxy Lady on April 27, 2011
… the very first HD footage of this year’s cubs, taken yesterday afternoon. 😉
They need a leash
Posted By Foxy Lady on April 23, 2011
Several of the overnight Foxcam video clips seemed to show Mrs Fox having to go off and retrieve one of the cubs who’d ventured further than she thought safe. Realistically that was probably only a bit further out across the lawn — I can’t tell, as they were out of Foxcam’s field of view — but it definitely shows the cubs are getting bolder.
Still only two visible (I thought there might have been three on one of the clips, but on careful re-watching I think the third set of eyes belonged to one of the adults). And from having seen the two cubs suckling from Mrs Fox out in the open, if there are one or more further cubs, they’re getting seriously short-changed on the milk front…
Anyhow, here’s today’s compilation!