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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2020 at 01:53    Image of day on 14 Feb 2020

This apparently solitary fox fits nicely into the camera frame for this portrait.


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Image Taken on 26 May 2016 at 04:46    Image of day on 03 Jul 2016

There is a rabbit burrow entered from under the lower slab, and the Fox at the top seems to be waiting hopefully for a incautious Rabbit to appear.
15 minutes later we are surprised to see a Fox 'Cub' in a similar position.
90 minutes later, as the day gets lighter, a baby Rabbit ventures out - now in comparative safety.


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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2023 at 22:47    Image of day on 15 Aug 2023

Two trail cameras catch a Fox time-stamped 2 minutes apart (we try to keep them accurate to a minute) we have to assume that between a visit to the Round Pond (left) and passing the Duck Pond the Fox captured an unwary bird, from it's size we guess a Rook or Jackdaw.


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Image Taken on 30 Sep 2021 at 23:33    Image of day on 14 Nov 2021

These two photos, about half an hour apart, appear to be of the same adult Fox roaming the site.


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Image Taken on 02 Aug 2018 at 05:46    Image of day on 20 Sep 2018

Wouldn't it be interesting to experience the smell of this stone the way a fox does?


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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2022 at 23:30    Image of day on 23 Feb 2022

The Reeves' Muntjac Deer (left edge) ignores the fox that is presumably barking across the water.


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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2007 at 15:13    Image of day on 31 Aug 2007

Mid afternoon, in a rough grass field adjacent to our plot, two young foxes foraged and frolicked 50m away from us for half an hour.


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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2015 at 07:09    Image of day on 02 Aug 2015

Looking over our boundary hedge showed us a Fox ambling away from us along the crop margin. Instead of spotting us and galloping away the animal turned and walked towards the hedge (top left and right) and then started ambling back towards us, wandering left and right along the weed-killed margin. We think It suddenly spotted the humans next to bottom on the left, but continued it's amble, finally turning towards the hedge and walking through it.


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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2015 at 07:10    Image of day on 02 Aug 2015

Surely a moment of recognition of the camera or humans, but we kept still and the fox continued its amble towards us.


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Image Taken on 01 Jun 2015 at 07:11    Image of day on 02 Aug 2015

The Fox appeared on the other side of the hedge, from where it crossed over the farm road (top of image) and disappeared into the crop.


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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2018 at 21:04    Image of day on 31 Oct 2018

Foxes are among our most usual night visitors.


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Image Taken on 27 Jul 2007 at 23:49    Image of day on 26 Aug 2007

Almost midnight a fox calls in the dark.


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Image Taken on 02 May 2023 at 01:27    Image of day on 16 Jun 2023

An hour after midnight this adult Fox arrives with what must be a Corvid (Rook or Jackdaw). The Fox carries it up the mound, probably over the top, and a minute later reappears going the other way.
"Where are those cubs this is for?"


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Image Taken on 01 Jul 2019 at 11:04    Image of day on 17 Aug 2019

This rather thin adult Fox streaks past the camera with an unfortunate Corvid (presumably Crow, Rook or Jackdaw) grasped in their mouth. This was mid morning so Cubs must need a feed - Foxes normally eat small prey near where they catch it.


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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2019 at 21:44    Image of day on 17 Aug 2019

This Fox seems to have a Pigeon in its mouth as it trots away from Round Pond.


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Image Taken on 08 Jan 2024 at 01:03    Image of day on 02 Feb 2024

Here a Fox shows us why they visit our patch on most nights - here leaving at the east hedge gap, complete with a good sized Rabbit clamped in their jaws.


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Image Taken on 21 Jun 2020 at 20:05    Image of day on 27 Jul 2020

6 minutes later the camera some 30 metres away catches this Fox carrying away what seems to be a Rook. It is most likely the same Fox - the camera badly underexposed the image meaning the work-up has left the colours rather dubious.


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Image Taken on 23 Jan 2021 at 08:17    Image of day on 20 Feb 2021

The distance + poor light make it hard to identify what this Fox has caught to take home for Breakfast. Wrong colour for a Rabbit or Pigeon, too big for a rodent, so we guess a corvid of some sort.


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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2022 at 19:59    Image of day on 21 Feb 2022

A bit of a mystery as this Fox apparently exits our site onto the concrete access track with something quite large in the mouth. The first image is overexposed, but the remainder give an idea of the size of the prey item. We at first thought it might be a Pheasant, but the regular male has since been seen 'present and correct', and a female has also appeared.
Large Rabbit, Hare, Large Pigeon?
After watching a Fox take a Stoat in a recent 'BBC TV 'Winterwatch' (you can catch it on YouTube) we could believe that the prey is almost anything!


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Image Taken on 25 Apr 2023 at 05:44    Image of day on 08 Jun 2023

Just before dawn 2 days later we see this adult Fox carrying a quite large prey item rather laboriously across the grass by the Duck Pond. Other images suggest that this is most likely a Hare. Regular visits by prey animals get noticed by their hunters.


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