All the other creepy crawlies and animals that interact with your garden and the countryside
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greg
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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
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

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nuthatch
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by nuthatch » Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:01 am
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by nuthatch » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:31 am
Greg, what is that dark shape in the foreground

is it mostly a shadow of something?:

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by greg » Sat Feb 28, 2015 5:12 pm
nuthatch wrote:Greg, what is that dark shape in the foreground

is it mostly a shadow of something?:

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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by nuthatch » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:25 pm
Ah, I see .....
Superb looking fox and photo

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

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by Placido » Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:09 pm
Oh, congratz Nuthatch

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The more the merrier

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by nuthatch » Mon Apr 27, 2015 6:40 am
I have seen the fox in the garden every night for a week or so

and one night I saw it crossing the road

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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
