Paphos Life

I have just had a very special visitor to my garden, yes, in the rain and towards dusk.
A fox, complete with large bushy tail walked through the garden, down below the pool and searched for something under my photovoltaic panels. He stayed quite a few minutes, and even posed for a photo looking at me looking at him.

Sorry, being technologically incompetent, I am unable to upload my photos of Foxy due to their size. Blush!

Wow, lucky you. I'd love to see a fox that close and for a few minutes - the one's I have seen have been moving too fast to get a good look (or, sadly, dead at the side of the road - I've recently seen 2 in the space of a month).

I'm very envious that you managed to get a photo. Maybe send to Dominic so he can re-size and post it and we can see it?

In the UK, they are now becoming Urban Foxes, not shy any more and waling around roads and gardens. They are also becoming much larger - maybe because of more food

Ams wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:58 am I'm very envious that you managed to get a photo.

Not just one, several, all from a distance. I am currently playing around trying to find out how to resize them on my iPad so I can upload them ... don't hold your breath while waiting though

Here goes.

Well that seems to have worked, although I did have to do it via a very circuitous route. Now for the rest!

My friend had a beautiful fox in her remote garden In Kouklia. Unfortunately her cat had 4 babies (about 4 weeks old) and the beautiful fox killed all 4.

Hopefully here are the rest of the resized photos. Unfortunately, I seem to have uploaded them in reverse order! Doh!

That was a shame, Louise. I must admit, having Foxy about upset my youngest cat that evening. Fortunately, at nearly a year old, and being a very good ratter, I think he is too large now for Foxy but he obviously felt at risk and stayed in all night for once!

Thanks for making the effort to post the photos Kay, lovely to see (and reverse order didn't matter). How lucky you were. I live in hope I'll one close up and be able to take photos (I'm from Malta, we don't have foxes there, they are a novelty for me).

Louise, how sad about your friends' kittens. I love wildlife and understand some things are natural, but have to admit that would have really upset me if that happened to me. As it is I feel upset for your friend and the poor mother cat who must be wondering what happened to her babies.

Ams wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:19 pm I live in hope I'll one close up and be able to take photos (I'm from Malta, we don't have foxes there, they are a novelty for me).

Perhaps you didn't see my last post: Favourite Animal photos #2" where I showed a fox mum with her babies...which was really my favourite of all animal pics as it was so difficult to catch them from a distance of ca 500 m across a valley...
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8731

Max

cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:30 pm

Ams wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:19 pm I live in hope I'll one close up and be able to take photos (I'm from Malta, we don't have foxes there, they are a novelty for me).

Perhaps you didn't see my last post: Favourite Animal photos #2" where I showed a fox mum with her babies...which was really my favourite of all animal pics as it was so difficult to catch them from a distance of ca 500 m across a valley...
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8731

Max

I did miss that post Max, but I do remember seeing your photos of the fox mum and babies when you posted them last year. It made me try and be more observant looking for them in future. I did see one recently which ran in front of the car on a country road then turned round to look at us, but it was only for a second or two, it very soon turned and ran off.

Sadly I expect that food is in short supply for Reynard, poor kittens so sad, I have seen videos of cats chasing foxes away, fully grown cats of course.

Jackie