Got over an hours worth of footage of the cub last night so will take a while to go through it all but here’s a photo of the Vixen (to be confirmed) and her cub.
It looks like there is only one cub however, as you can see from photo, the Vixen (again, I need to confirm it is her) is holding her left rear leg off the floor. She is limping a little, it doesn’t seem to be affecting her much though so hopefully just cut her paw.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, I’ve had a complete failure of the SD Card so have lost this footage, but fear not, I’ll get some more.
It was a busy weekend with what seems to be a newcomer visiting. It’s certainly not the original Male as he a strange deformed/injured tail with the end missing. It doesn’t appear to be lactating so possible a different Male.
Newcomer?Fox Cub
However, we also got another glimpse of a Fox cub on Sunday morning before running off after what I think is it’s parent.
Blink and you’ll miss, right at the beginning of this clip of the Vixen eating you’ll see a young Cub in the background.
This is great to finally see one. Of course, I don’t know if this is the only Cub but can only think that the Vixen is keeping them away from coming into the garden currently so hope for more footage soon.
Sorry about the bad audio quality, I’m having issues with the Bushnell Natureview Max HD (Colour) camera. I’m on my 4th replacement since March and still having issues!
Typical, she’s been coming just after 9pm for the last few nights whilst it’s still quite light. So I set-up a hide in preparation and waited and waited and waited, then it went dark, and I waited.
Just in case this happened, I put the flood lights on ready. Plus, I wanted the lights to give her that all important sparkle in her eye even if it was still light.
She turned up around 10:10pm so hardly any usable light left, but you can just about see some blue sky tint in her eyes.
{Click image for a higher resolution, click Flickr Link in caption to view photo on Flickr} Vixen - D7100, AF-S 300mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8, ISO3200, 1/10sec - {Flickr Link}Vixen - D7100, AF-S 300mm f/2.8 @ f/2.8, ISO3200, 1/15sec - {Flickr Link}
It’s not a simple answer! I don’t know. He only showed up for a fraction of a second before running off. The one thing that really identified the Male was that his tail was very short and busy. As he didn’t come into the shot fully, I can’t make out his tail. He has quite a thick coat which the Male certainly did.
However, as you can see from the photos, they are 2 different Foxes, the 2nd photo is the Vixen. These two shots were only 30 seconds apart too, so they were together, which is unusual for Foxes.
It’s too big to be one of the young, so I can only hope this is finally proof that the Male is around and well.
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