Returning fox

[foxerklw]

From experience, do you know if a fox will return to numerous kills at the first opportunity, or around the same time it made the kills/usually frequents that particular area..??

The ground is not familiar to me, and the only information I can get is the visit took place between dusk and dawn..!!

 

[Bo Diddley]

Foxes are creatures of habit, unless that is they sidetracked on their travels by something more interesting, then they may arrive a bit later than expected!

 

[Smellydog]

Not so much habitual but certainly they will follow a pattern of activity.
I feed and area regular and have a trail camera there. As soon as a pattern emerges from a regular visitor I plan my move.
This one started turning up around 8:20pm regular.

Ended up like this.

 

[Night òwl]

I find if a fox has been spotted there us a very good chance it will return at a similar times , especially if food is available

 

[Tim.243]

From experience, do you know if a fox will return to numerous kills at the first opportunity, or around the same time it made the kills/usually frequents that particular area..??

The ground is not familiar to me, and the only information I can get is the visit took place between dusk and dawn..!!

They have to eat to survive so their time clock will start moving fwd to get there before the next fox.

I shot a fox after walking at it around a field as it would not let the muntjac skin and 2 smashed front legs go..

It dragged then tried to bolt a bit then dragged it some more...I got lined up on one of its stops wacked it took back the muntjac and dumped it with others... then shot 2 more in that week

 

[Andy seatrout]

It depends on where the fox was ‘from’ if it’s earth is very nearby and not far from the kill/ carrion/ food, then it can be back soon after dark the next day, if it gets distracted and some way off from it’s likely earth then it may take some time….

If it’s a ‘dusk till dawn’ I’d go a couple of times in the evening soon after it gets dark….. a fox that hasn’t eaten all day laid up, gets hungry by nightfall…. ?

 

[Andy seatrout]

Not so much habitual but certainly they will follow a pattern of activity.
I feed and area regular and have a trail camera there. As soon as a pattern emerges from a regular visitor I plan my move.
This one started turning up around 8:20pm regular.
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Ended up like this.
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What trail cam do you use? Is it a card version or cell ?

 

[Warbucks]

Customers of mine that want foxes shooting, i always tell them when you see a fox, always check the time you see it, i will then start one hour early on this time and stay one hour after depend on what else i need to do that night, iv'e seen them be within 5 minutes of the time, then some times not turn up for day's -------thats foxing

Dave (warbucks)

 

[Smellydog]

What trail cam do you use? Is it a card version or cell ?

Just a cheap thing. Card type.
Would love a sim card one.

 

[long_range_rob]

I agree with @Warbucks they seem to have a bit of a routine but I’ve never seen one wearing a watch……..yet.

 

[Warbucks]

Ive had a trail cam a few years, but there just isn't many places where i dare leave it so it won't be stolen, if a dog walker comes across it by dog finding bait chance's are the cam will go especially if they don't like foxes shooting, iv' had 50p asda plates stolen.
Ive often use a £2.50 single aa battery asda alarm clock with fishing line round the battery with rabbit at the other end of fishing line, cost is low if it gets nicked of damaged by anti's

Dave (warbucks)

 

[Sonicdmb73]

If you think about it and from watching foxes. They tend to set off from home and take a circular route back. During which they usually work into the wind as much as they can. If somewhere along that route they find a substantial meal, then they seem to find somewhere to sleep it off (I’ve shot a few doing just that) or go home.
I have seen the same fox on camera over my bait at a similar time on consecutive days. But then you don’t see it at all for a day or two and then it appears at the same time again. I can only assume it found a meal.
I have shot plenty over their kills. For it to be worth my time waiting nearby.

 

[willowbank]

Over the years my cams have shown definite patterns of foxes travelling the same routes, unless as someone said earlier, something more exciting happens to change their behaviour.
I’ve found that if a fox raids a henhouse and everything is just left it usually returns, especially if it has dependents.

Willowbank

 

[FISH BOY]

Foxes are creatures of habit, unless that is they sidetracked on their travels by something more interesting, then they may arrive a bit later than expected!

Found my local ones are pretty regular - every night around 10.20pm, he sets my back garden security lights off, sniffs about and then craps on anything he can find lying around.

My next door neighbour is actually quite impressed with him as he laid a perfectly centralised deposit on a brick standing up on their wall!

Joking aside, before trail cams, used to used the alarm clock battery/rabbit trick mentioned above which showed give or take an hour - whether it was the same one is anyones guess.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Found my local ones are pretty regular - every night around 10.20pm, he sets my back garden security lights off, sniffs about and then craps on anything he can find lying around.

My next door neighbour is actually quite impressed with him as he laid a perfectly centralised deposit on a brick standing up on their wall!

Joking aside, before trail cams, used to used the alarm clock battery/rabbit trick mentioned above which showed give or take an hour - whether it was the same one is anyones guess.

I can identify in many trail cam photos individual foxes. Like the one with no white on its tail. Another with a lot of white. Yet another very dark in colour compared to the others.
The battery trick probably accounted for many over the years. But trail cameras are definitely a different ball game.

 

[Pedro]

Anybody who owns any member of the wider dog family will know they have an internal clock more accurate than an atomic timepiece. 5pm is feeding time around here and I get reminded on the dot by my four legged friends. But yes, foxes do tend to be creatures of habit.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Anybody who owns any member of the wider dog family will know they have an internal clock more accurate than an atomic timepiece. 5pm is feeding time around here and I get reminded on the dot by my four legged friends. But yes, foxes do tend to be creatures of habit.

Aye. Uncanny how dogs can tell the time. Our old dog’s clock is set on British Labratime - no matter what Greenwich says she starts agitating one hour before her 5pm feeding time.
Foxes work to a routine. If any of my farmers see a fox I ask them to put dog food out at set marker posts every night before dark for 3-4 nights and I add a camera. They are there same time every night - means they can be shot in comfort from the jeep and by appointment.

 

[Sonicdmb73]

Aye. Uncanny how dogs can tell the time. Our old dog’s clock is set on British Labratime - no matter what Greenwich says she starts agitating one hour before her 5pm feeding time.
Foxes work to a routine. If any of my farmers see a fox I ask them to put dog food out at set marker posts every night before dark for 3-4 nights and I add a camera. They are there same time every night - means they can be shot in comfort from the jeep and by appointment.

Is that working smarter, or being idle?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Is that working smarter, or being idle?

I think being efficient, effective and economic would describe it best!

 

[User00036]

I got a problem fox atm, the problem is it keeps turning up when I'm asleep