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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Beautiful fox cubs.  How anyone could set hounds on them to rip them apart I don't know.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Not a daily moment, but a months worth of the deer having a trip around the garden.  I kept moving the trailcam so we could see where she goes.  No mow May has developed into no mow July, so the entire garden is looking fairly wild .  She ends up at the top of the garden on the manure pile.  The local farmer tips it there for me, and I use it over a couple of years. It is currently covered in Chenopodium album (white goosefoot) which she seems to like almost as much as the hostas.


  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    @fidgetbones really enjoyed that, what a movie star!!...she was really working the camera  :D
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    She was very shy of the camera at first, now she knows it's there but also knows it's not going to do anything.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    She was very shy of the camera at first, now she knows it's there but also knows it's not going to do anything.
    I've had one taking a lot of interest in the trail camera. I hope it isn't thinking about chewing it :#


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    You could try an old ball for them to play with.

  • @Fire your first photo looks more like a Gatekeeper to me.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096

    @Fire your first photo looks more like a Gatekeeper to me.
    I understand that a meadow brown has one spot of white in the eyes on the wings and a gate Keeper has two white spots. It’s not a great photo. 
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Going back to foxes (beautiful photos by the way!)
    I used to go to my horse field about 4 or 5am, one morning I watched a vixen, and 2 cubs literally gambolling down the slope, what an absolute joy to watch!
    We had 3 deer who used to come in the fields too - if I walked between all the horses they wouldn't see me, so I could get fairly close. 
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