Vocal Voices

I was driving home at dusk when two squabbling foxes ran out. Thankfully I was at the 20 MPH speed limit so missed them. When I got home, about 100m away, there were two more just sitting there.

I often hear them in the night calling and crying, but I have never seen so many. They don't give a stuff about us humans, either.

Nor do the badgers who have moved in to the culvert recently cleaned by the council.

You have a lot of wildlife round you WM.
It's mating season for the foxes atm, there will be a lot of them out and about. One was photographed out and about at 1pm in the next village over this week.

Cromwell, the area has copses and culverts on two sides and a wooded cemetery on the other, so even though it is in a city it is very countrified.

We have always had the foxes and hedgehogs, some of them are quite tame and will eat out of your hand, same as the squirrels, and we have loads of them, but the badgers only moved in a few years ago when the electric thingy got hit by lightning and the blocked culverts got drained.

Ria will completely disagree with me on this but please don’t feed foxes. The neighbours two doors up had been feeding the fox we were terrorised by. The vermin control man said if people didnt feed them they wouldn’t be so attracted to us and our houses. He said that this fox had absolutely no fear and he would have been in our house if we had left doors open. We do all in our power to deter them humanely but if our neighbours feed them it makes it harder to do so.

Foxes?? VERMIN!!!

Saw one at around midday.

Miasmum absolutely right in what she says

Foxes may look handsome and cute but they are
opportunistic predators.

None of us feed the foxes, but the area does have so much food for them - mice, voles, roadkill - however, they are so near to us every day that they do not fear us. We co-exist.