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Mammals - Fox Page 1
Image Taken on 02 Feb 2016
at 02:38 Image of day on 07 Mar 2016
NO - this didn't happen!
A couple of hours apart during the night these 2 visitors photographed themselves
at either end of the camera frame. So we have brought them together to show you
the entirely different body builds of these two night scavenger/hunters.
Both Badger (left) and this Fox seem to be in good health.
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Ref: 20160307_e64_20160202_0238_078+0023_076_fb2 badger and fox at same scale (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 27 Jan 2018
at 02:30 Image of day on 02 Mar 2018
Early morning and evening of the same day sees the Badger (left) and Fox
visiting the same place at the woodland site. We understand that male Fox
genitals enlarge at this time of year ready for breeding - we think we see this here.
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Ref: 20180302_e64_20180127_0230_096+2027_143_fb2 badger and fox male with scrotum expanded for breeding (montage at same scale)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 02 Oct 2018
at 19:41 Image of day on 22 Nov 2018
The windfall apples attract a Muntjac Deer, Foxes and Badger. For the second
time in a week a Badger and a Fox cross paths. It is the Fox that leaves.
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Ref: 20181122_bu6_20181002_1941_376_sc2 badger arrives and fox leaves(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 03 Mar 2024
at 21:50 Image of day on 30 Mar 2024
These 4 pics rather simplify an interaction between Fox and Badger, and the Badger
is obviously the winner of the pecking (or should it be biting) order.
Top Left: The Fox spent a few minutes at a scrape on the Round Mound before suddenly
reacting to the arrival of a Badger coming up the mound.
Top Right: The Fox makes a hurried departure - thats the blur upper middle!
Bottom Left: The Fox watches from a distance as the Badger scrapes at the same place.
Bottom Right: 20 minutes later the Badger has gone and the Fox returns, but is already
reacting to something down the slope.
The target of their scrapes is a new Rabbit hole in this patch of the mound.
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Ref: 20240330_bu2_20240303_2150_398+2153_403+404+2216_431_sc7 badger disturbs fox at hole in round mound (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 08 Apr 2024
at 22:43 Image of day on 03 May 2024
We have over 150 pics of activity at the new (original Rabbit) hole in the south of Round Mound.
We are not at all sure what is going on. First a Badger made a short visit.
Then a Fox spent 85 minutes digging out the hole, reaching the point where the Fox could
get into the hole far enough that only the tail is visible. A few minutes later we see
presumably the same Fox departing through the east hedge gap.
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Ref: 20240503_bu2_20240408_2243_117+20240409_0115_122-0239_272_sc7 badger then fox digs out round mound hole for 85m 1-9 of 9 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Jun 2016
at 11:14 Image of day on 31 Jul 2016
A sudden eruption of self-set Orange Hawkweed (commonly called Fox-and-Cubs) has
lit up a strip near the front of the house. Here the gradually increasing number
of Bees is visiting one.
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Ref: 20160731_df3_20160615_1114_024 bee on orange hawkweed (aka fox-and-cubs) flower(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 12 Oct 2016
at 02:13 Image of day on 23 Nov 2016
Just half an hour apart a Tabby Cat and a Fox visited this site
in the positions shown. We have always thought of cats as much
smaller than a fox, but in this case they are quite similar.
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Ref: 20161123_e64_20161012_0213_088+0243_089_fb2 cat domestic and then fox hunting 30 minutes apart (montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 15 Jun 2018
at 09:51 Image of day on 04 Aug 2018
The little clump of fiery 'Fox and Cubs' in our front 'garden' coming to the end
of their flowering ...
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Ref: 20180804_df3_20180615_0951_094 clump of fox and cubs flowers by gate(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 26 Jan 2018
at 16:59 Image of day on 14 Mar 2018
Four regular 'Mound visitors' species captured over 50 hours, all where they
were at the time.
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Ref: 20180314_bu2_20180126_1659_405-20180128_2053_793 courting rabbits x 2 + muntjac deer fem + fox + badger 1-5 of 5 (acc montage 50 hr)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Aug 2010
at 20:26 Image of day on 19 Oct 2010
Crouched down to spring on the - err - fruit?
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Ref: 20101019_d45_20100828_2026_191_fb1 crouching fox (crop 1)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 18 Jun 2017
at 11:35 Image of day on 10 Aug 2017
The Drinker Moth is a moderately large moth that flew rather nicely for us.
Here are 3 flights.
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Ref: 20170810_da1_20170618_1135_233+237+1149_279+1309_318_ft1 drinker moth male in 3 flight + fox & cubs flowers (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Jan 2011
at 21:15 Image of day on 13 Mar 2011
Foxes have been regular visits at stealthy camera sites, but this
one has at last started making visits to the good quality cameras.
Here it is visiting the camera near the boundary hedges, though
rather inelegantly cropped by the top of the camera frame.
Only 2 minutes before a mouse was making a rapid exit - it
probably heard the fox coming in through the boundary hedge.
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Ref: 20110313_d45_20110125_2115_214_fb1 elegant fox (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image of day on 12 Nov 2006
Our night photo kit was originally adjusted for larger animals.
So here is a whole fox from Sept 2003.
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Ref: 20061112_d32_05152 fb fox (web crop)(r+mb id@576).jpg
Image Taken on 13 Jan 2011
at 17:22 Image of day on 02 Mar 2011
We couldn't resist contrasting these two single frames (i.e. the
two mice are like this in the original) of the same place 7 hours
apart after rain. Can the fox still smell the mice we wonder?
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Ref: 20110302_d5c_20110113_1722_171+20110114_0051_177_fb2 2 fieldmice (wood mice) leaping + fox 7 hours later after rain (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 18 May 2014
at 22:25 Image of day on 18 Jul 2014
OK - OK - this didn't happen!
As we worked through the images these came up next to each other & we couldn't resist it!
We suspect the fox cub can still smell the mouse from a couple of hours before.
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Ref: 20140718_e63_20140518_2225_243+20140519_0024_245_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) & fox cub 2 hours apart (fantasy montage)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jan 2015
at 18:24 Image of day on 08 Mar 2015
6 successive frames suggested this montage top left to right,
bottom left to right as both creatures returned repeatedly. Could
the fox smell the alluring mouse from an hour or two earlier?
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Ref: 20150308_e63_20150124_1824_134-2150_139_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) & fox sequential visits over 3 hours 1-6 of 6 (montage)(r+mb id@1024).jpg
Image Taken on 24 Jan 2015
at 18:24 Image of day on 08 Mar 2015
Details from the bottom left image of this very healthy looking Fox.
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Ref: 20150308_e63_20150124_1824_137_fb1 fieldmouse (wood mouse) & fox sequential visits over 3 hours 4 of 6 (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 28 Nov 2019
at 18:27 Image of day on 02 Jan 2020
A Red Fox saunters along the path up the meadow, causing this Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) to leap
to safety & triggering the camera to catch them both in the frame. The Fox
was apparently unaware of the mouse, or once it heard it knew the alerted rodent
would now be impossible to catch.
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Ref: 20200102_e62_20191128_1827_052_fb5 fieldmouse (wood mouse) fleeing as fox walks by on path behind (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 11 Oct 2020
at 20:48 Image of day on 20 Nov 2020
In the meadow this Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) streaks away from unseen danger.
A minute later the Fox renders the danger visible.
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Ref: 20201120_e6a_20201011_2048_432+2049_433_fb5 fieldmouse (wood mouse) flees as fox approaches site 1+2 of 2 (montage over 1 minute)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 25 Jul 2025
at 04:22 Image of day on 25 Sep 2025
A Fox on the prowl in the woodland.
The tail looks a bit tatty, but it is not the one with seriously fur-less tail.
We must have at least 3 different Foxes visiting.
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