We’ve been living here for 4 years in October (it’s difficult to believe it’s so long and it won’t be long before H has spent as much of his life here as at the old place). We live in a very green part of the city, but we haven’t had that many wildlife visitors. There have been a few frogs (next door have a pond); birds especially the big sort: pigeons, crows and magpies, but also some blue tits, sparrows and robins; one or two dead baby mice have been brought in by our furry friends; a bee’s nest under the eaves two years running; and there have been the usual creepy crawlies. What has been missing and you’d expect to get in an urban environment is foxes.
This year is the first time we have had foxes regularly visiting our garden I think. First I noticed what I thought was fox poo on the grass and on the path. Then we had a sighting a few weeks ago. Since then there have been more. Some of them have been early morning sightings as I am up early every day and the mornings are so light, it’s easy to see. But, we have spotted them from upstairs windows in the afternoon. At first I only saw one at a time, but this morning we saw two adults together.
I took this picture of a fox on our garden table this morning. He seemed to be enjoying the morning sunshine and was giving himself a wash. I managed to get a photo of him (it’s on the phone and I had to zoom in to get it, so the quality isn’t all it might be).
What has interested me is our cats reaction to the foxes. Our nervous male cat, Amber, spotted Mr Fox walking over our patio one morning. He jumped up onto the window sill to have a better look, but he was only curious and not upset about the fox. If that had been another cat, there would have been a lot of drama: fluffy tail and loud complaints. He’d have been acting like he’d got his knickers in a twist all morning. With the fox though there was none of that. Once the fox was gone you wouldn’t have known he’d been there.
We have quite a few foxes in and around our area too. They are lovely creatures aren’t they. xx
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Oh wow I’ve never seen a fox up close before, they are such beautiful creatures. Funny about the cat not bring bothered by it.
Wow he looks so nicely relaxed there in the sun. We don’t get many foxes around here, I think. We do get big fat noisy birds that don’t shut up though. One has moved onto our roof, Grrr.
The crows seem to love our roof too. They jump around on it and screech. I hear them a lot because the room I work in is an attic room.
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Even though I’m not a big fan of foxes (after what they did to my chickens!) they are stunning to watch. My parents had a family living in the shed at the bottom of the garden and the cubs would come out to frolic in the sunshine in the morning.
Aw how lovely. I actually don’t mind foxes and have found a few of them to be quite tame x
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It’s amazing how confident foxes have become around people. We used to see them all the time in London but having moved to the French countryside I don’t think I’ve actually seen one since though I’m sure they’re around. My Dad always used to be terrified of bumping into packs of them when he left early for work in the morning thinking they were going to gang up on him!!
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It’s great that you’ve been able to experience the foxes so close to you, I love to see their colours and movements, so lithe. Popping in from Animal Tales
I live in a really rural area and foxes are a real issue for anyone keeping hens here. I really feel that something is wrong that foxes are becoming so tame
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I’m not keen on foxes; good your cat can’t be bothered with it and they don’t disturb you. #AnimalTales
It looks like he choose a very good spot to relax in there.
I adore foxes and studied them as part of my degree. I used to go around fields looking for their poo (scats) to help monitor populations. Probably one of my favourite animals. Lucky you, I’d love one in my garden.
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I have to admit we have loads locally and they are very brazen and quite scary – my grandad had a set under his shed in the garden and they were very hard to get rid of
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what a fantastic visitor to have, glad you cat was too upset by the visitor
I love seeing our native wildlife up close like that. We had a fox strolling across our patio the other day and we often see deer in the field behind our house.
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Foxes are so brazen, I can’t belive he was on your table! lol Mich x
We see a lot of foxes by us, quite often if you look out at night you see the odd one running up the road. Must admit I don’t like driving at night this time of year as they always seem to run in the road in front of me x
Our rural Normandy foxes are very shy and very rarely seen in the daytime and certainly nowhere near the house like this – the dogs would certainly see them off which I’d be glad about with all the poultry here (aka potential fox dinner.)
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It is good to see that the foxes are welcome in your garden.
We see a lot of foxes and they are quite bold too, I do love to see them though they make a huge racket at night out the park behind our house- it almost sounds like someone screaming!! 🙂
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