Thursday 24th April was not a good day at Fox Towers
Foxy Lady | April 29, 2025
Spoiler: and then there were two.
Garden Fox Watch
Watching a family of foxes growing up in my back garden.
More cubbage…
Foxy Lady | April 23, 2025
While the weather was a bit batter last week, we had more chances to see the cubs in light good enough to take pictures! They were, and are this week, still very bouncy. (We have seen the first cub make it as far as the patio, though he or she dashed back into the undergrowth […]
Fox vs mobile…
Foxy Lady | February 21, 2024
Okay, this one is not technically a “garden” fox, rather in woodland, but if he wanted a mobile phone then he definitely counts as “urban”! Fox steals RSPCA rescuer’s phone
City foxes braver but not smarter than rural cousins, apparently
Foxy Lady | August 10, 2023
The study, published in Animal Behaviour, left puzzles in foxes’ habitats for them to solve to get rewards of food. City foxes were more likely to touch the puzzles but both sets of foxes were equally likely — or unlikely — to solve them. I strongly suspect that the city foxes thought “nah… can’t be […]
The British Library’s top sound of 2021…
Foxy Lady | December 14, 2021
… was, apparently, the sound of a fox screaming — listen to it here. (The rest of the BL’s top picks can be seen here.) I’m slightly surprised that there are urban-dwellers who don’t know what foxes sound like! 😉
Cubs in the sun
Foxy Lady | May 10, 2020
It was a nice sunny day on Friday (which is more than can be said around Fox Towers today, at least). And the cubs decided to come out and show themselves in the sunshine. We have at least four — I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least one more waiting to show itself, […]
Doors are tricky things…
Foxy Lady | January 13, 2019
One of our local foxes decided to come and investigate the house the other evening. Sitting on the back doorstep, they looked as though they were considering whether it would be warmer inside and possibly also have food — but the door was of course closed. One of our cats came over to investigate and […]
2018’s cubs, at last
Foxy Lady | June 23, 2018
It feels like these little guys are a bit later than usual making an appearance. We weren’t sure whether there were cubs at all this year; we’d seen the local adults around quite a bit, but it wasn’t until a couple of days ago that we saw a cub with them — at a point […]
Accidental fox cubs…
Foxy Lady | April 20, 2018
“Mark Bucknell says he found the animals about a month ago abandoned behind some straw bales in a shed at his farm near Newquay, Cornwall. He took them inside thinking they were his spaniel Ruby’s puppies as she had already started producing milk and mothering them.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-43843863
Sunbathing
Foxy Lady | February 7, 2018
Although it’s been quite chilly here the past few days, it has been sunny for much of the time. With the sun come the foxes — well, they come out from their dens, anyhow — and they seem to find the roof of our shed a good place to sunbathe. Possibly the tar-paper covering it […]