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 […]
And so it begins… for this year
Foxy Lady | April 15, 2025
For a variety of reasons — bad weather, too much vegetation, etc. — I’ve struggled to get decent pictures of the local fox cubs for the last couple of years. But no more! This year, not only have they been visible a little earlier than in some years, but we are reasonably confident they’re actually […]
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, […]
2020 cub debut!
Foxy Lady | May 6, 2020
It’s a strange world you’re coming into, kid, but welcome anyhow…
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 […]
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 […]
Sunning themselves
Foxy Lady | March 26, 2017
Not sure if we have a breeding pair in our garden this year, but on a recent sunny day we were visited by two of the local crew, pottering around for food and enjoying the weather. The first of them (the first six photos) did also sit down for a while, but those photos didn’t […]
Stew, anyone?
Foxy Lady | October 27, 2016
So we had some leftover stew that none of the humans wanted; we figured we’d see whether the local foxes fancied it. Oh yes. Definitely. The elapsed time from it being put out to the appearance of (one of) our friendly fox(es) was somewhat less than ten minutes. (The magpies turned up only a little […]