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Urban foxes

By Richard Jones on 22/06/2011 16:37:58

I say, I say, I say, my fox has no tail. Your fox has no tail? How does it ... erm ... well, you get the idea.No, it has no tail, well, just a stump really. Our other regular visiting fox has a big bushy tail, and a third, occasional visitor has


Fox droppings

By Richard Jones on 02/09/2010 10:27:06

The foxes of East Dulwich are particularly well fed. I can tell this for sure, because I have been able to examine, very closely, what comes out of the other end of the fox. Last week, we received two parcels of fox dung on the pavement outside


Fox trot

By Richard Jones on 21/01/2009 10:07:32

and they saunter past without a care. One sniffed at the guinea-pig hutch, then squeezed through the gap in the fence and was gone.We city dwellers have a soft spot for these animals. For most of us, foxes are probably the most impressive wildlife we ever see


Cats and foxes

By Richard Jones on 16/03/2011 10:22:17

A few days ago a fox vaulted over the fence and landed on the two cats asleep just outside the back door. Fur flew. The poor beast didn't stand a chance. It stopped half way up the lawn and turned to see what exploding ammunition dump it had fallen


Garden foxes

By Richard Jones on 05/12/2012 10:41:00

The foxes have been busy in my garden again. I haven’t seen them recently, but they leave their tell-tale signs. Occasionally I have cause to curse them, notably when I move the kids’ climbing frame to mow the lawn and find a putrescent latrine


Urban foxes

By Richard Jones on 09/06/2010 17:10:02

I think we have foxes living under our garden shed. I first noticed the scratching in the soil a week or so ago. It didn't look like very much excavation had occured and the hole didn't appear to go very far. But now we have more earth-moving going


Urban foxes

By Richard Jones on 10/11/2010 13:30:21

of the leaves when I spotted a ruddy brown bundle next to the ivy thicket. There was a fox asleep on the roof of the shed.It turned its head towards me as I cracked open the casement to take a picture. Not a very good one, I have to admit, I need a telephoto


Squirrels, foxes and snow

By Richard Jones on 08/12/2010 15:11:42

inquisitive and it is not unusual to find whiskered rodent features peering in through the transparent perspex flap. Luckily none of them have quite worked out what to do next.The fox was also poking about in the snow on Saturday. It was gingerly mincing


Now you see them...

By Richard Jones on 14/11/2007 10:57:49

I used to see foxes all the time. Whenever I looked out of the window there was almost certainly one sniffing about in the garden or strolling nonchalantly down the street. Winter nights were alive with the unearthly yelps and screams of the males


Squirrels and skulls

By Richard Jones on 12/05/2010 09:03:48

on. All I could see was the squirrel’s back end, with its fluffy tail twitching sinuously back and forth like a snake charmer’s serpent. It seemed to have its head buried in one of my skulls.Along with the fox skulls nailed to the shed and the flag


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