Another cracking evening, still lot`s of action. Bonus , Dandelion are in full bloom…
Frederic
Always fighting….before sex! 🙂
The evening light was gorgeous
I did a few silhouettes
The surprise of the evening was this beautiful fox…
Red fox recce
Yesterday evening, for the first time this spring, I went on a fox recce. I was sitting in a tree in front of a massive badger set. Yes, Fox are often in the same set as the badger. Nothing came out of the badger set but a male fox just walked by. he was marking his territory. It must have had a bladder the size of a rugby ball! he marked his territory at leat 50 time in 15 minutes.
Foxes must be one of the most persecuted mammal in this country…it`s a shame really as it is a magnificent animal.
Frederic
Fox day
Sometimes you have really successful days…Yesterday was one of those. It was a fox day!
For the first time in a year, I went to my hare paradise. I saw very few hares. I think that all the rain we had last year’s killed a lot of them. I did not see any of my old friends…I am really sad about this. They were no hares but they was a fox and what a fox. I stayed with that vixen for more than half an hours. At the moment the meadow is a dandelion sea . It was incredible. I took the pictures with the 500mm and the 2 time converter. (I like that new 2 time converter).
In the evening, I went to another fox den to see if they were any cubs.
Frederic
While waiting to see if they was any fox cub. I did photograph other species….A gang of rabbit
In that meadow, sheep were everywhere…
And suddenly at long last four fox cub came out of a den…I “just” need to photograph them now. it will not be easy
It was an incredible fox day.
Snow, Glorious snow
Snow, glorious snow. At last some great weather.For me every time snow come down,it`s like Christmas .
The difficulty is to find out where to go. As you want to score on those special days.At the moment,I have four feeding stations going . One in a reed bed, one in woodland, one in open countryside and one more “Raptor” hide. That was the hide that was flooded. This morning I decide to go to the Raptor hide. I had a road kill with me. I arrive in my hide and after setting everything up I waited three hours….No Raptor in sight but my favorite mammal appeared. A magnificent red fox….I was lucky to see and photograph that special mammal. To photograph a fox is one thing but to photograph a fox in the snow is always very special. I have done it hundred time but it always thrill me to do it….In the afternoon I went to my woodland hide for another four hours…..
Frederic
