General Chat

ABOUT 11;30 pm LAST NIGHT I WENT THROUGH TO
MY KITCHEN WHEN IN SAW THROUGH THE GLASS
WINDOWS IN THE TOP HALF OF MY BARN DOOR TWO
BRIGHT ROUND LIGHTS ,NO WAY COULD THIS BEING
A CAR OR TORCH BECAUSE ITS THE BACK OF THE
GARAGE,I OPENED THE TOP HALF OF THE DOOR AND
ON THE ROOF OF THE GARAGE WAS A FOX SITTING
THERE .NOW HOW THE HECK DID IT GET UP THERE
ITS QUITE HIGH I DON'T KNOW IF ITS DONE IT BEFORE
BUT YESTERDAY MY FRIEND CHANGED MY GARDEN
THINGS AROUND SO IT MIGHT HAVE CONFUSED THE
FOX,HE WAS A BIG ONE,HE WATCHED MW FOR A FEW
MOMENTS THEN MOVED TO THE BACK OF THE ROOF
INTO THE DARKNESS,

We've had one sunning itself on our shed roof one year. We have an old fox that regularly walks up our road during the day.
It's also about at night as it leaves it's mark ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

I think we have had a fox in the garden a couple of times, as there is a field at the end of the garden, but there are often foxes walking along the street when o.h. comes home from working the late shift.

The other day I walked into the kitchen/diner around 8am and spotted a squirrel coming towards the patio doors, he showed no fear as I stood watching him, in fact he wandered around giving me time to get my camera and take a good photo of him coming towards me again. I think he had been stealing nuts from the hazel tree at the end of the garden, he finally scampered off and up the fir tree next to the hedge and disappeared.

I love seeing all the birds and creatures in the garden.

Lizx

I Love foxes around here, they love to tunnel under Schools cos' they know their safe under there and get plenty to eat. I used to watch them in the early morning sunning themselves outside the school,before they started classes.(Not the foxes, hehe)

More than once I have enjoyed close encounters with foxes.

Three or four winters ago, when a blanket of snow had covered the ground for a week or so, I had paused to watch a flock of finches feeding beneath an oak tree when that rich and unmistakable scent of a dog fox came to my nose on the wind. I stood still and watched and sure enough, before two minutes were past, Renard himself walked into full view. The finches flew to safety and the old fox sniffed where they had been, lifting his head and looking all around.

But what should we make of him? There are many who would kill him on sight. Fox hunting in the UK was banned in 2004, ending dark days of senseless savagery - a cruel sport indeed.

Poisonous substances are plentiful & opportunities to use them equally so. Strychnine was once the poison of choice; now that this is no longer easily purchased other products, including livestock medicines, are used as alternatives.

Why? The traditional view of the fox as an enemy of the shepherd & the poultry man would appear to be the main reason.

Finally, a bit of trivia for you. A fox was shot dead on an Aberdeenshire farm awhile back after it was seen attacking lambs, weighed 38 lbs & was 4ft 9ins in length.

Enough of this 'Foxy Knoxy' stuff for now!

foxes can actually climb :-D

foxes (allegedly) will kill livestock, because they can..........not necessarily for food.....

sadly,(for the fox) they are often" roadkill"

As AnnCardiff said, foxes can climb - when I moved down here to the Bromley area of Kent, the house I rented had a large rear garden that backed on to a golf course.

At that time I had 2 Boxer dogs, a family of foxes regularly came into the rear garden from the wooded area of the golf club, the dogs would bark and I would open the door to the patio, let my dogs out, the foxes would race away, more often than not, at least one of them would literally run up the garage wall to seek refuge on the roof :-D

I LOVE WATCHING THE FOX AND WE LIVE IN A BUILT
UP AREA,LOVE THE SQUIRRELS AND THE PARAKEETS
ALL LESS THAN HALF A MILE FROM HEATHROW AIRPORT

We think that one has been digging under our shed as the supporting rafters are laid on a bed of sand.

The burrow now has chicken wire and crazy paving stones blocking it. He he.

Sorry - but they are a menace - if they get into a chicken coup they'll kill the lot, but only run off with one carcass.
They've used the railway embankments to migrate to the easy pickings of urban areas and have lost their fear of humans. Locally, they have been known to enter houses if the doors have been left open during hot weather.
There have been verified reports that in London they have attacked infants in their cots.

I know a joke about a fox's hat

One of my junior teachers was a Ms Fox. She would never kill a chicken but she used a cane on us for being naughty now & then.