Welcome to the Garden Fox Watch blog, detailing the life and times of the family of foxes that are growing up in our back garden.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 21, 2010
I have four videos here for you from Monday. We prove that there are still four fox cubs — despite the fact that we don’t often see all of them out together, they are still here. There’s also another snapshot of the eternal struggle to be on top; some Advanced Leaping and Pouncing practice; and finally, another round of Fox Vs Hedgehog…
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 21, 2010
Sorry things have been a little quiet this week, folks. Big work project and also the foxes have been producing too much cuteness — I can’t keep up! I’ve got videos, I’ve got photos, all coming to a post near you very soon…
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 19, 2010
While our cats may not be playmates with the foxes, here’s a story from the BBC about a dog and fox who have become friends.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 18, 2010
1) my cat can outrun a fox, just about;
2) an adult fox, hitting a locked cat-flap at full tilt, will not break that cat-flap.
I would love to know what caused that altercation!
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 18, 2010
In the past few days, the cubs seem to have taken to attempting to vault over their mother. She’s still quite a bit bigger than they are, so you can imagine how successful they usually are(n’t).
Below the fold are four videos from the evening of 15th May — we’re getting a lot of new videos each day at the moment so we’re a little behind with the uploads, but we should be able to catch up over the next few days. Here you have some interrupted grooming, some attempts to jump over the vixen and finally what looks like a full-blown steeplechase… (There are a couple more videos on our YouTube channel.)
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 18, 2010
Our cubs haven’t ventured out of the garden yet, and the adult foxes have so far proved adept at negotiating the traffic (thankfully our road is fairly quiet), but the BBC reports on a village that has acquired some fox-related signage.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 15, 2010
Eating and playing do seem to be the two main activities of the young foxes’ lives. (Probably also “sleeping”, but we don’t see that.) Playing with food is also popular.
Here are some of the overnight videos, for your amusement; the first one includes a cub wanting to be really sure his cube of bread is dead, the second involves the fox-cub all-in wrestling championship, and the last features some truly appalling table manners on the part of the cubs. (There are also a couple more on our YouTube channel.)
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 14, 2010
The foxes have been less visible than usual over the last day or two (just as I announced this blog to the world, of course; timed for maximum awkwardness). Possibly they’ve just been put off by the chilly weather; maybe the cats are giving them some aggro; perhaps the cubs are getting to that awkward adolescent stage and are doing the fox equivalent of sulking in their room playing emo music and not coming out for meals. Whatever the cause, all I have in videos from last night is some footage of Mrs Fox coming out for food and then going back into the bushes — not really worth uploading.
Have some photos from a couple of days ago to make up for it. As ever, click on the thumbnails to see the photos and click anywhere on the resulting large photo to close it.
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 13, 2010
Yesterday’s video includes some lovely footage of the Cub Versus Pigeon incident of which I posted pictures. The best part is that the pigeon is daft enough to come back for a second attempt at the food; I suppose (most) birds are not known for their intelligence…
Posted By Foxy Lady on May 12, 2010
To my surprise, the cubs were on the early turn today; out and about in the garden around 9am, which is most unusual for them. There was a certain amount of rough and tumble, and then one of the cubs took it upon him or herself to stalk a pigeon, which was attempting to finish up the leftover fragments of one of last night’s slices of bread.
Not surprisingly the pigeon got away, but watching the attempt was fun!
