Red Fox: Back again, and not soon enough as I was eager to spend another evening with the local fox family and wasn't disappointed as I was treated to not one, not two, not three.... but four foxes on show tonight!
Brilliant!
the fisrt vixen broke cover around 6.30pm and by 7.30pm there were two vixens which were coming out into the open to forage on the short grass right in front of me and they were joined by another two a little later on.
they were getting regularly spooked by dog walkers and dashed into cover before popping their little heads out, their ears up and eyes focused on the yapping yorkie.
Eventually the dogs would pass and barking would stop and they vixens would reappear back on the hunt for food. Foxes are mainly carnivores but are generally classed as omnivores.
In Britain, the red fox feeds mainly on small rodents such as field mice, voles and rabbits, however, they will also eat birds, insects, earthworms, grasshoppers, beetles, fruit and mollusks and crayfish, amphibians, small reptiles and fish. almost anything it finds, often eating carrion (dead animal carcass) or preying on smaller to medium sized mammals and birds.
Another great evening in the company of these great animals.
