Smile please Miss...

[saxonaxe]

Many times I have had visits from the Boatyard foxes, they walk over my boat with muddy feet and more than once I have woken up to see an inquisitive face peering down through the glass forehatch at me. So I decided to turn the tables and armed with my new camera...(built for idiots..just point and press the button..yeehah!) I waiting up in the boatyard.

Cheated a bit with a chicken leg bait, but it wasn't really needed. This years cub, a young Vixen seems to treat me as part of the Boatyard furniture anyway.. Out from the Bramble bush she came, stopped and looked when I spoke to her and then settled down to a chicken leg supper..

Vermin..yes, maybe, but they dispose of the Rats which would otherwise plague the tidal moorings here, so we live side by side without problems, getting on with our own lives as I'm sure the Gods intended.









I said " Good night Miss" as she walked away, and her left ear swivelled to my voice...

[rossbird]

Great pics
Always special, getting so close to fellow hunters.

[butchthedog]

Enjoyed that,,

[snowleopard]

[Mouse040]

Good times , lovely pics

[shepherd]

brilliant photos...

[David_JAFO]

hello,
Great photos. Got a Fox family of 4 here too. Mr F-O-X as he is known, adult male, likes a wee treat now & again Dog Biscuits,
he sits on the grass outside the fence & waits at night on his treat like a wee dog, great to watch, got loads of photo's of the night
activity of the family. Don't you just love urban wildlife?
Regards
David

[saxonaxe]

I like to observe the wild creatures, but always remember they are just that, wild creatures. I know Foxes split opinions but I don't think it does any harm to photograph them and tolerate their presence, at least here along the river banks. There's lessons about survival to be learned from them anyway, back in the winter when food was hard to find, I watched one digging crabs out from under the pilings on the other side of the river..

[OakAshandThorn]

I like to observe the wild creatures, but always remember they are just that, wild creatures. I know Foxes split opinions but I don't think it does any harm to photograph them and tolerate their presence, at least here along the river banks. There's lessons about survival to be learned from them anyway, back in the winter when food was hard to find, I watched one digging crabs out from under the pilings on the other side of the river..

Foxes in my area are big-time shy...I guess it's because of all the people who walk large pooches. Only saw one once, a few winters back, running across a frozen pond. But it's incredibly funny seeing people freak out in the woods at night when they hear a fox barking .

[Tigger004]

wonderful experience