Dear Readers, you might remember discussion about the foxes that visit my garden, and my hunch that there was more than one. Well, I’ve been checking the camera every day, but this is the first photo that actually shows two foxes in the garden at the same time. Hooray! The one on the right seems watchful, but not particularly fazed by the other one.
And here’s another photo…again the foxes seem very comfortable with one another. I’ve heard no sounds of fighting, so I’m assuming that all is peaceful, at least for the moment.
This is a relatively quiet time for mature foxes – the youngsters have largely dispersed, and it’s not the mating season yet, so there’s a little bit of time for just feeding and hanging out. These two could be a couple, or they could both just be passing through, but at any rate I feel a bit like David Attenborough finally spotting the Lesser Spotted Twistle Thrush after weeks of waiting around in a damp tent.
In other news, I am amused that we seem to have the same little visitor every morning at first light. It’s interesting to see the routines of the animals around us, they’re nearly as predictable as I am, though they seem to be able to do without coffee.
Have you noticed any routine behaviour in animals? My foster cats are now in a set routine, and get very irritated if their dedicated servants don’t dish up food or go to bed at the agreed times. I sometimes wonder who domesticated who…..
That’s so cool! I don’t get such exciting mammals. I am limited to cotton tails, raccoons, and squirrels. My garden is entirely fenced, mostly to keep coyotes out.
I’d be very excited at the raccoons….
A Pair of Fork-tailed Drongos perch on a wire outside our kitchen every morning and call out until we give them each a tiny piece of cheese. I watch three of the neighbourhood cats making regular patrols through our garden too. They appear to have regular routes and more or less regular patrol times.
We often see signs that a fox has been in our Ealing garden over night but yesterday morning’s offering was a first, a whole rack of lamb had been left in the middle of the lawn.
So funny! That’s someone’s dinner party ruined….
A little while ago our resident cat asked me to join her. I thought she wanted lap time but she wanted me to watch her play. Do you know HD Winnicott? Now, since we dragged her to the vet yesterday for her vaccines (we are putting ours off….) she is now hanging out from a safe distance as I work. We love it when foxes visit. Not so much when coyotes (we love them) awaken us in the middle of the night.
Our dog, Tomos, always comes to pester us almost exactly at 5pm if we haven’t dished up his food. š¶