Red Fox

In my younger days when I was more active I used to visit places that were not frequented by humans and animals did not fear you. I often found that sitting quietly in a secluded spot a wild animal would approach because it did not know what you were. This has happened several times during my long life.

This picture is of a young fox that had probably never seen a man before. It was less than a metre away before it turned and ran. This sort of thing has happened many times to me.
 

Badgers

I am trying to encourage the badgers back into my garden. They used to join the foxes for a evening meal. Since a neighbour got himself a bad tempered dog they have stayed away.

This was in a friends garden on his patio. It was  a friendly animal and came within a metre of me, and totally ignored me.

This was on our local nature reserve when I lived in Horsham. They were quite used to camera flash.

 This one was the surprise of my life. Sitting quietly in a wood one evening hoping to catch a barn owl when this badger appeared in front of my camera.

Wonderful break but disaster.

I had a wonderful break on Hayling Island with a couple of good friends. I had never been looked after so well. Walking is getting harder each day so they got a wheelchair for me so I could get involved in everything. My only failure was my photography. An electrical fault which I managed to rectify but too late to use meant no pictures. The annoying thing was I had left a lot of spares behind so not to burden my friends car. But on returning home the foxes gave me a lovely welcome and its all back to normal now.