Out last night.

Another foxy link - probably should be in the photos thread but this seems to be the best thread for all things foxy. Not my photo I hasten to add, but it's just won one of the categories in Wildlife Photographer of the Year and I thought is was an interesting observation of foxy behaviour. Taken in Sherwood Pines, Nottinghamshire:

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(c) Daniel Valverde Fernandez
That’s a really nice photo, the only thing I can see wrong is there’s a back stop🤔
 
Local running track
They built it with a lovely fence round it , and fenced all the rabbits in 😂
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The ground is an old coal bing the we used to set alight as kids
The rabbit holes showed up as red hot on the thermal and when you put your hand down them it’s roasting 😂 handy on a cold night.


This was a few nights previous
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Different places.
I reckon ive done 375 of that place since last spring and got a long way to go yet.
Got the caravan park under control at least.
Why is your truck sooooo clean
 
I saw my fox about 100yds away.
Lost it in a ditch.
Then it popped out in front of me and busted me.
Got a chance at 200yds but disappeared through a hedge 😤
 
Just got to farm and it’s ****ing down, again!
Not made of sugar, so I won’t melt.
Ken.
 

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Just got to farm and it’s ****ing down, again!
Not made of sugar, so I won’t melt.
Ken.
Home again, cold and damp and foxless. 🙁.
Check the road on the way out and my helper didn’t show with the sarnies tonight…..does Charlie know which night he feeds them?
Or, did he not come because he knows they won’t get eaten because I’ve shot ‘em all again 😂.
Big plus, took my gear back to car and then gave field a last (Desperate?) scan and saw a very small heat sig. near to where I’d been sitting but on the other side of the Hawthorne hedge….went to investigate thinking it’s probably a fresh dog dump (These 8 year old Pulsars not the best for ID.) but as I got within 3 metres (Still on opposite sides of hedge) the thing moved a little and then I could tell it was a very young rabbit.
Not seen a rabbit here for several years. I called out to it to alert it to foxes (Potentially) nearby, it ignored me and carried on sitting under the Hawthorne.
Doubt I’ll see it again.
Ken.
 
Went to test and air rifle on the rats last night. That farm, you know, the one I see a fox at occasionally.
The farm I was there until late Friday night and back there before light Saturday morning....
It was there last night, sitting looking at me.

How do they know, just how do they know......
 
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