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The Fox Cubs

Blasdale Home Posted on June 30, 2023 by SteveAugust 9, 2023

30th June 2023

It has been a long while since I posted a video about our fox cubs. This five-minute video shows the fox cubs still with the Vixen down at our waterhole. The timeline is from mid-end June.

On the waterhole (pond) you can see a pair of moorhens racing around the pond, and preening. In one shot at about 32 seconds in you can see a fox cub on the bank, and the moorhens in the pond.

At 45 seconds in, a Muntjac (?) deer makes an appearance, after which we see a Vixen and her two cubs walking along the bank in the darkness.

During daylight hours, a grey heron comes fishing and catches a small unidentified morsal of food from the pond.

More fox cubs and their mother appear during daylight and darkness, often to come for a drink from the pond.

A Greater Spotted Woodpecker appears at 3.15. It hangs around entertaining us for a few seconds.

Not so nice is Ratty at 4.45.

Finally, a Jay comes for a drink.

Posted in Buckinghamshire, Grendon Underwood, wildlife | Tagged Fox, Fox Cubs, Great spotted woodpecker, Grey Heron, Moorhen, Muntjac | Leave a reply

Garden Nature – Grey Heron

Blasdale Home Posted on February 3, 2023 by SteveFebruary 3, 2023

2nd February 2023

Rosemary spotted a Grey Heron near the field pond. I rushed out to take a photograph. I was far from it, and it was standing down the slope to the pond, so little of the Heron was in sight. I grabbed a few frames from about100 meters away, and then walked towards it. Of course, it flew off.

I looked at the frames I took, not technically good, but you could see it was eating a frog or toad. So worth keeping them. I think it was a Toad, and so does Rosemary.

Grey Heron
Grey Heron
Posted in Buckinghamshire, Kingswood, wildlife | Tagged Frog, Grey Heron, Toad | Leave a reply
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