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« Reply #3946 on: 13:38:19, 23-03-2008 » |
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There are (or at least were several years ago) nocturnal foxes around the Barbican and St Paul's as well.
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« Reply #3947 on: 14:32:48, 23-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #3948 on: 18:49:48, 23-03-2008 » |
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I've removed it after second thoughts.
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« Reply #3949 on: 23:50:07, 23-03-2008 » |
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I can't remember seeing a fox out of captivity before. Blimey!! You should try getting an allotment Don B. I remember a few years ago a fox scraping away at one of my veg beds right in front of me while I tried to shoo it away. I had to resort to chucking stones at it in the end to get rid of it (boo hiss, nasty Andy). You also have to be very careful where you use chicken manure cos the foxes will come and dig everything up. |
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Walking back from the Easter Vigil at my church through the streets of London N5 around 11.20 pmI saw a real live fox jump up on a garden wall and down into the front garden of a terraced house. I can't remember seeing a fox out of captivity before. It looked very elegant. I was told that urban foxes are the reason why the rabbits in Clissold Park are kept under cover. Tally ho.
Yet a friend who now lives in rural Derbyshire can have her free-range chickens free-ranging all day with no worries about foxes as she says the neighbouring farmers have shot them all...  There must be more foxes in our towns now than in the countryside. We had two fox cubs cavorting on the lawn for many afternoons last summer and often saw their mum searching for food. |
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« Reply #3951 on: 10:07:12, 24-03-2008 » |
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A few weeks back I did see a dead fox in the gutter of our street in Hackney (Highbury borders, as the estate agents say.)
But honest, I can't remember seeing one out of a zoo, although I probably have.
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« Reply #3952 on: 10:38:40, 24-03-2008 » |
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When we lived in Kent in 2000, we could hear foxes crying at night. A most disconcerting sound.
Strangely, we (well, the cat) also found a sloworm in the garden - first time I'd ever seen one despite growing up in the countryside!
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« Reply #3953 on: 10:42:34, 24-03-2008 » |
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When we lived in Kent in 2000, we could hear foxes crying at night. A most disconcerting sound.
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« Reply #3954 on: 11:09:38, 24-03-2008 » |
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Ho Mort, It's funny, now that we live in a much more rural area, we don't hear them at all. We do here owls though which is also a spooky sound! I am currently struggling to identify some microshells I bought 3 years ago - nightmare (I decided to specialise in a new family (called Engina) and thought I had better look at what i already had that was unidentified before deciding what to buy at the shell show next month. Bad idea - will probably end up with sore eyes before too long!)  |
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« Reply #3955 on: 23:34:23, 24-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #3956 on: 07:05:15, 25-03-2008 » |
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Some years ago when my parents were living in Cowfold, slightly off topic I know, I brought my German Shepherd Dog there for a walk,(this is really out in the sticks), as we were walking along, suddenly out of nowhere, a great big fully grown stagg jumped out if front of us!!! It was quite a magnificent creature! Gave me and my dog quite a start!! Never seen my dog's ear stand up so much! What an experience.
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« Reply #3959 on: 18:31:14, 25-03-2008 » |
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