Sue the female fox

I set a I/F camera last night outside my front door as there had been signs of a fox  just lately. Sure enough this morning I had pictures on the camera these two being the best taken at about 2o'clock in the morning. This fox I have named Sue, I did this when I realised she was pregnant. As you can see now the birth has taken place.

I am now having to wait patiently for a couple of weeks or so to be introduced to the family. We shall have a party in the garden to which I shall of course supply the food.
 

Foxes food

I got this picture from one of my I/R camera's at 0715hrs after it had been outside my front door all night. The fox was taking his victim home I expect to feed his family. It appears to have caught a gull of some kind of which they are many around the village. The photo's I get teach me a lot about wildlife that you don't find in books. For instance did you know foxes love fruit especially red grapes. Last year apples went missing off the lower branches of our trees and I often hear them squabbling over the grapes at night.
 

Fox corner

This was taken on my automatic infra red camera just after I had set it up for the evenings work. As you can see it works well in any light.

This picture was taken much later that night and it had adjusted itself to take infrared and as you can see it made a good job of it. This happened while I was fast  asleep.
 

Murder of the Badgers

I learned today of the number of badgers killed in the cull of last year. The official figure is 33,687, which brings the total since 2013 to more than 175,000. It is still not proven that badgers are responsible for the spread of the BTB. The infection is carried in the fluids of the body. Badgers have a latrine away from the sett. Unlike other animals who do it anywhere. Can you imagine cattle eating grass that another has urinated on. Work it out for yourselves it is almost impossible for a badger to infect a cow. I have had many photographic holidays on a  farm and one was in a red area during an outbreak a few years ago and on that farm were two setts that I knew of. We used to feed them and visitors could watch them on television. BTB was never a problem.
 Badgers are welcome on my property where there will be food and protection from stupidity.

Foxes getting popular

 The foxes are getting very popular in the village where I live. It is surrounded by farms with a lot of animals and one of the problems they have are rats. I explain to people with foxes around they will not have rats. My neighbours rats dissapeared several years ago when I started feeding the foxes. I only used the cameras to see who took the food. My cameras now sit in others gardens so we can all track our foxes. The number of rat sightings seems to have dropped dramatically.