Foxy Lady | May 24, 2012
… it’s a tough life being a mother of six. Watching the cubs interact with their parents is always fun — at this stage (these photos were taken on 1st May) the vixen seems resigned to a life of providing milk forever and a day, but of course we all know she’ll start dissuading them […]
Foxy Lady | May 23, 2012
One thing I’m afraid you’re not going to get quite as much of, this year, is captions on the photos. There are lots and lots of photos — you need not feel like you’ll be short-changed there! — but Foxy Lady is ridiculously busy right now and thinks it’s more important to get some of […]
Foxy Lady | July 29, 2011
Photos here from 9th May… one of the cubs decides to pose, Mum has a really thorough scratch, and even Dad turns up to join in the evening feed. (Doesn’t happen every day; he’s definitely still around at the moment, but not necessarily visible every day, unlike Mum and the cubs.)
Foxy Lady | July 22, 2011
Again these are photos from early May. The cubs spent some time relaxing and watching the garden before having dinner and curling up with their mother…
Foxy Lady | July 17, 2011
Any human parent — well, any parent with a child over the age of about two — will be familiar with just how persistent children can be. It turns out that this is a cross-species trait. One May morning, Mrs Fox was sitting in a sunbeam at the bottom of the garden, and peering thoughtfully […]
Foxy Lady | July 10, 2011
One evening back in early May we were eating dinner and occasionally glancing out to the Family Fox, working their way through the delicacies I’d provided for them on the back lawn. Something wasn’t quite right, though. A head-count suggested… one, two cubs; one, two, three adult foxes? What was going on? While it hasn’t […]
Foxy Lady | July 5, 2011
You may remember that when you last saw the cubs, they were little and really more bear-like than fox-like. These days they are really more lanky teenage foxes than round fluffy fox cubs, but here, cast your mind back a couple of months to early May… this is what they looked like then.
Foxy Lady | May 26, 2011
Cute (or deranged) though the cubs are in this set of pictures — from April 30th — I think my favourite is the shot of Mrs Fox, the last of the set. She’d come up to lie in the grass (… and the weeds, yes, okay…) near the edge of the patio, which meant she […]
Foxy Lady | May 25, 2011
April 29th was an especially good day for pictures of fox tongues, it turned out. Baby foxes, mother foxes… sometimes both at once. Also, one of the cubs was practising his stalking skills on one of the local magpies — unsuccessfully, but then they usually are.
Foxy Lady | May 24, 2011
As you may recall, the cubs start off with comparatively dark fur — almost black, or dark grey at least. They were definitely on the grey side when they first came out into the open. But by the end of April — these photos were taken on the 27th — they were beginning to lose […]