We have foxes in our garden, as those of you who have seen my images of Charlie the Vixen know. In addition to Charlie, there seem to be three regular visitors, but until recently they would rush for cover whenever I appeared, unlike Charlie, who was pretty fearless from the first time we met. Two more have now become sufficiently habituated to my presence to let me get some pictures. So, as well as more of Charlie, meet Mr Charlie (I think he's a dog fox ) and Scruffy, who looks, unfortunately, in pretty poor nick - some of the pictures of Scruffy are not for the super squeamish.

The secret of my bewitching power over foxes is vitamin-enriched doggie choccie drops - they love 'em. Chuck a few in the grass and the foxes snuffle around quite happily ignoring the camera and the flash. Since my 550EX is mounted in the hot shoe, I'm getting a few "glass eyeballs" - wonder whether a flash bracket would help?

Update

Since I wrote these original notes, Charlie and her friends, to my great sorrow, have disappeared from our garden. A few months ago they just stopped coming. I suspect they have been trapped or poisoned. It didn't take long for newcomers to move in, but they are very camera-shy, and while they eat the food we put out never stop for a chat.

Roger
16 Sep '04