Flying Fox
I have already posted one photograph of my amazing dashing Fox encounter but here is my second lucky photograph with four off the floor (but only just!). But this one has the added bonus of the Fox glancing sideways to smile at me as it sped past.
Foxes are pretty widespread throughout Britain, absent only from most of the Scottish islands. They are highly adaptable and can occur in many different habitats feeding on a wide variety of food especially rabbits, voles, birds, beetles, worms and fruit. Foxes living in urban areas tend to scavenge for food scraps just as they do for carrion in rural areas. But they will also take live food in urban situations. Foxes mate in the depths of winter when the Vixen can be heard making that familiar screaming bark. Gestation is just over 50 days and the young are fully weaned at about 10 weeks. The male usually helps provision the young with food. The cubs usually associate with their mother until autumn, when they disperse to find territories of their own. I usually see male Foxes out and about in daytime during winter in search of females, but I think this one might be a vixen, although the diagnostic parts are concealed in all of my photos.
Flying Fox
I have already posted one photograph of my amazing dashing Fox encounter but here is my second lucky photograph with four off the floor (but only just!). But this one has the added bonus of the Fox glancing sideways to smile at me as it sped past.
Foxes are pretty widespread throughout Britain, absent only from most of the Scottish islands. They are highly adaptable and can occur in many different habitats feeding on a wide variety of food especially rabbits, voles, birds, beetles, worms and fruit. Foxes living in urban areas tend to scavenge for food scraps just as they do for carrion in rural areas. But they will also take live food in urban situations. Foxes mate in the depths of winter when the Vixen can be heard making that familiar screaming bark. Gestation is just over 50 days and the young are fully weaned at about 10 weeks. The male usually helps provision the young with food. The cubs usually associate with their mother until autumn, when they disperse to find territories of their own. I usually see male Foxes out and about in daytime during winter in search of females, but I think this one might be a vixen, although the diagnostic parts are concealed in all of my photos.