The Egg Snatcher
This is not the mama fox with the eye injury. I haven't seen her lately which makes me worry. A short time before I took this photo this mama fox snatched all eleven of the duck eggs in the nest in our field. I assume mama duck got away but her eggs were not spared and became a delicious dinner for the fox. The duck sat on the nest for two weeks and had about two and a half weeks to go before they would have hatched and then she would have led them back to the pond. Very sad for the duck but a decent meal for the fox. Life where the wild things live is never easy.
The Egg Snatcher
This is not the mama fox with the eye injury. I haven't seen her lately which makes me worry. A short time before I took this photo this mama fox snatched all eleven of the duck eggs in the nest in our field. I assume mama duck got away but her eggs were not spared and became a delicious dinner for the fox. The duck sat on the nest for two weeks and had about two and a half weeks to go before they would have hatched and then she would have led them back to the pond. Very sad for the duck but a decent meal for the fox. Life where the wild things live is never easy.