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Thanks Admin for sorting that out – have put my bits of “Fox News” together in a new post with smaller picture, hope that is all OK and that he stays around for more excitement!
John N
Mon 25/4- Foxes are not uncommon in our garden, but they are usually passing through and don't hang about. But last evening a big dog fox, which I've named 'Rupert" (Rupert Murdoch - Fox News ) made himself thoroughly at home.
He wandered across the lawn and curled up on a seedbed in the salad patch, and went to sleep. After about 20 minutes I went out and he let me get within some 10ft before he raised his head, leisurely got to his feet, ambled onto the lawn and sat down. I sat on a garden seat nearby and for some 10 minutes we looked at each other, Rupert behaving like a dog, rolling over, scratching himself and finally laying flat on his tummy and going to sleep. He was there for an hour before proceeding on his way.
26/4 - Yesterday afternoon I was fiddling around in the greenhouse and saw him sitting on the lawn. I wondered whether he was thirsty, what with all the dry weather, so I filled a small plastic pot with water and placed it outside the GH. I went back to the house and watched. For several minutes he stared at the pot, then got up, walked over to it, picked it up by the rim, tipped all the water out, carried the pot a few yards away, placed it down - and peed in it!
29/4 - Rupert sitting on lawn when neighbour's black cat appears and starts searching round the bottom of nearby quince tree, obviously looking for a rodent. Fox watches patiently until suddenly a small rat (or maybe large mouse) appears, running away from the opposite side of the tree.
Fox moves like lightning, grabs the rodent and returns to previous spot. Cat carries on searching, apparently oblivious to the fox sitting with the rodent laid out like a trophy in front of him just a few yards away! Unfortunately didn’t have camera available.
Keep it up!
) to find Rupert had repeated his act with my leather shoe. Only this time it had rained hard all night so shoe was well and truly soaked!