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Mammals - Fox Page 26

Image Taken on 26 Apr 2008 at 17:57 Image of day on 10 May 2008

NOT a montage. We watched with amazement as the muntjac walked past the clearly visible fox without a qualm, being much more worried about us standing quietly about 100m away.

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Image Taken on 23 Jan 2021 at 09:16 Image of day on 20 Feb 2021

This Fox spent a few minutes investigating the main pond, but he was being watched from the island by a female Deer, and decided to depart.

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Image Taken on 23 Nov 2021 at 02:02 Image of day on 31 Dec 2021

The female Reeve's Muntjac Deer at the bottom of the mound looks up at the arriving Fox coming over the top. A Fox could not tackle even a relatively small Muntjac Deer, but could certainly attack a Fawn.

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Image Taken on 18 Jun 2015 at 12:38 Image of day on 21 Aug 2015

This small (typically 2cm across flowers) add sparks of fire to the shingle area outside the front door and around the side gate

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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2014 at 10:41 Image of day on 25 Aug 2014

We have seen this flower for the last couple of years, and the stunning colour is not exaggerated. It's most common name seems to be Fox-and-Cubs (related to fur colours?) but it is also know as 'Orange Hawkweed' which for us fits the plant much better. These flowers are about 2.5cm (1 inch) diameter.

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Image Taken on 04 Apr 2022 at 18:24 Image of day on 05 May 2022

The King is Dead. Long Live the King
The sad death of our dominant male Pheasant.
12 pics in 2 blocks of 6 document the event as the various mostly automatic camera caught the events. Bottom left of the first block was the first we knew of the event as we walked by our access to the main road.
Each photo is time stamped as xxx_yyyymmdd_hhmm_...

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     The new male Pheasant occasionally on the site for some days.
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     The dominant male Pheasant on the access track to main road.
BU8_20220405_1300_220      03 of 14
     The last sighting of the dominant male, here full of himself calling at Duck Pond.
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     The dominant male road-killed in the previous 3 hours.
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     Yours truly dodged the traffic to collect the body.
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     The sad remains left at the meadow site.

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Image Taken on 05 Apr 2022 at 17:04 Image of day on 05 May 2022

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     Rooks had a look at the remains.
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     The new male may have no idea that this was once his rival.
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     Several Magpies took away beakfuls.
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     We see a Fox - the remains now gone dragged off somewhere.
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     3 hours later this Fox is carrying part of the remains.
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     18 minutes later the head end of the dead bird is carried away.

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Image Taken on 05 Apr 2022 at 21:20 Image of day on 06 May 2022

The crafty Fox remembers the Road-kill Pheasant left at this site, and keeps coming back to see what else there may be!

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Image Taken on 14 Sep 2020 at 01:20 Image of day on 26 Oct 2020

About half-way through the above sequence the fox passed through, watched suspiciously by the stationary Polecat.

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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2016 at 19:24 Image of day on 07 Nov 2016

We don't normally show you Rabbits with Myxomatosis even though we see lots of images on our cameras at this time of year. Many recover from less severe attacks, but this one is as bad as it gets. The rabbit is (at least temporarily) blinded by the swellings but alive. It has found this piece of pear to eat at the left end of the log ...

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Image Taken on 18 Sep 2016 at 19:29 Image of day on 07 Nov 2016

... but 5 minutes later the Rabbit meets it's end in the jaws of a Fox. We see no signs of it even struggling, and this may be a merciful release for the suffering Rabbit.

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Image Taken on 31 Jan 2018 at 07:21 Image of day on 02 Mar 2018

We adore our foxes, but really think this one arriving at the site in the rain shows a real sense of menace. The wise prompt exit by the Robin undoubtedly triggers the photo of this fox which is some 3 metres behind the camera's infra-red trigger beam and focus line.

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Image Taken on 03 Jan 2010 at 22:57 Image of day on 09 Mar 2010

This montage really points out the huge difference in size between lunch and the diner. Actually the mouse was there about 2 hours before the fox, and reappeared afterwards.

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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2016 at 11:17 Image of day on 29 Oct 2016

Perhaps 10m from us the Fox veered off to the left and the photographer was trying so hard to keep the fox 'in frame' that he didn't realise it was now over-filling the frame. The gorgeous creature disappeared through the hedge into our orchard and vanished.

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Image Taken on 09 Sep 2016 at 11:17 Image of day on 29 Oct 2016

To our surprise the Fox did not carry on through the hedge and out of sight, but turned 90 degrees toward us and carried his high-speed run along the hedge we were standing next to. It was impossible to keep the Fox in focus as it hurtled towards us, so here are a couple of frames that give you the idea.

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