I took a friend and her two boys out this evening for some wildlife watching and you really could’nt plan for this! The vixen and cubs are now so relaxed that they came right up to the camera and to the visitors – spellbinding. The boys loved it. The vixen and cubs were so …
Another wonderful session with ‘my’ foxes this evening (I am starting to think of them as my friends – strangely!! I have been trying for a few days now to get some shots of the vixen and cubs interacting, and they really decided to play ball this evening. The main cub in the picture is …
I had a great session with Mrs Fox and her cubs this evening. They are becoming relaxed in my presence now and so the hide is not now needed. I just sat quietly and watched the vixen and cubs at play. The vixen is getting really relaxed about my presence; she seemed quite happy to pose …
I have had a few sessions with the cubs since my first encounter in early June (in the earlier blog) but what with work and other commitments, I have not had a chance to really catch up with the patterns of activity of this fox family and consequently I felt as though things were a …
Driving home a few nights ago I was greatly surprised to see a vixen and her five cubs playing in the sunshine in a field fairly close to home. Seeing foxes in such a public place is really unusual, and since I have been looking for an accessible, active earth for a number of years now, it …
I spent this morning photographing garden cross spiders Araneus diadematus. My main subject was a plump female spider with a web which stretched right across the garden path. Rather cooperatively, she kept to the middle of her immaculate web but not unusually with this kind of photography, I was hampered by the slight breeze, which …