FOXES

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Re: FOXES

Post by greg » Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:25 pm

Here's our Fox taken tonight.
I've set up in the past with the camera outside and a studio flash, but this scares him off, so that's out :nod:
This was taken through the kitchen window with just the light from a 300 watt security light.
For the technical minded, I used ISO1600 and canons cheapest lens , the 'nifty fifty' 50mm set to f1.8 :photo:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:01 am

Aww, are they having a little cwtchy-up together? :D :fox: :cat:

Mmm maybe not :unsure: :laugh:

Lovely :photo:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:31 am

Greg, what is that dark shape in the foreground :magnify: is it mostly a shadow of something?: :detective:

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Re: FOXES

Post by greg » Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:12 pm

nuthatch wrote:Greg, what is that dark shape in the foreground :magnify: is it mostly a shadow of something?: :detective:
The shadow is its own shadow being thrown by the security light - which is higher up at eaves level.

I can get a photo without it, but it's quite a set up - using an external flash to overcome it. Here's one from August taken like that; the problem is that the Fox scarpers! so I have to get it right first time :)
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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:25 pm

Ah, I see ..... :)

Superb looking fox and photo :clap: :fox:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:57 am

:laugh: :fox: :laugh: :fox: :laugh: :fox: :laugh: :fox: :laugh: :fox: :laugh: :fox: :chuckle:

I can see very clearly that it's a shadow now that I'm looking at it on a decent sized screen :fox: :rofl2:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:30 am

A fox has started taking the fat block again - I'd been having a couple weeks off from that.

I think he's had a little go at the dog biscuits I bought for him and even sprayed the side of the ground feeder they were in - it was still wet :(

I wonder if he'd eat more biscuits if I took the fat block away but I suppose he could be sharing the block with cubs :fox:

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Re: FOXES

Post by Placido » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:09 pm

Oh, congratz Nuthatch :clap:.
The more the merrier :nod:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:40 am

I have seen the fox in the garden every night for a week or so :nod: and one night I saw it crossing the road :fox:

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Re: FOXES

Post by nuthatch » Thu May 28, 2015 7:02 am

Saw a fox last night darting along the pavement by the hedge - it had just been in to collect its fat block :fox:

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