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 …