Friends

Every night these two turn up for thier supper. They arrive at about the same time as the other and share the meal I put out for them.

 This has been going on for a couple of months. I used to have two badgers, three foxes and four hedgehogs but a couple of disturbances have scared the others off, but these two don't seem to scare easily.

 As you can see they share the food quite happily. I did think the hedgehog was scared and would run away but no if the fox arrives first the hedgehog will trot up later and join the fox.

They definately enjoy each others company and will meet up again in the early hours of the morning, sometimes in daylight.

Fox 'junior'

'Junior' seemed a bit aggresive tonight. He was pacing up and down, frightening the hogs away. I think he arrived a bit late and all the food had gone or perhaps he's getting fed up with all the photo's being taken of him. He certainly put on a bit of a face for the camera.

Fox visit

 Last night was a bit quiet and not a lot turned up. Beatie did and after a little look around soon settled down to his supper.

 Shortly after Mum turned up and helped herself to her share. Its a mixture of bran flakes and small dog biscuits.

Then to round off the evening Junior arrived and made hi,self comfortable and settled down to clean up what was left.

Early morning fox

At 0430hrs this morning  after a busy night my I/R camera captured an old friend of mine in the garden. This is Beatie, the name derived from his broken tail (BT). The pics. are I/R therefore black and white.

 The quality is outstanding considering the amount of light at that time of the mornig ( with a little help from Photoshop of course). These were taken in my front garden so he was distracted by someone on their way to work.

Nothing bothers Beatie for long, he has been visiting me for 4 years now so feels quite safe.

Supper time

I put the camera out again last night and there they were at it again. That fox always arrives at the same time as the hedgehog.

Its a young fox and it really has taken a liking to this hedgehog. I expect they will be together again tonight.

My new I/R camera

My new I/R camera arrived yesterday, an early birthday present from Jacque, and what a camera, half the price of my previous cameras and 10 times better. Harder to set up but once it is done. Wow!

 A fox came along to join him,  They were about 3m from the camera so I was very pleased with the result which has so much more detail and a lot sharper than any of my other I/R cameras.

These two know each other well and the fox greets the hog with a kiss.

 The fox has a good look round to see if there is anything else of interest.

He has one last little snack before he goes home,

When daylight comes the blackbirds arrive to clean up, These photo's were taken on one camera setting.