A reynards tale, or is that Tail?

[pigletwillie]

Mapcr77 and I have plots next door but one to each other. Mark has been regaling with tales about a braxen fox wandering about our plots for days.

Well today the mystery is solved. The plot between us is occupied but the back end is covered in brambles and an old corrugated iron shed. Whilst talking (as you do), the fox appeared and kept circling about us, clearly wanting to go into the bramble patch. A quick look in the shed revealed the den dug underneath it, obviously his home.

Are young foxes going to appear later in the spring we wonder. We hope so. Hopefully I will get some pictures this week.

[Seahorse]

What a veritable wildlife haven you have there!

Hope we can see pics if you get cubs.

[seasprout]

Smelly things.

I'm sure you will smell them before you see them.

I saw a fox at work today sunbathing, actually found myself tiptoeing away quietly as not to disturb. !

[jacob marley]

They like running along fleece tunnels so beware if you have any they bodge big holes in e'm jacob

[terrier]

Which reminds me, I used fleece tunnels for the first time last season. The terriers thought it great fun running up and down inside them I'm going to make sure the ends are well tied up this year.

[wellie]

.... and 'Elderly Next Door' to us keeps enquiring of BC's welfare, given that our resident Fox is getting ever closer out of the woods up to our boundaries in search of food these days......
A Fox will 'take' a cat if it's hungry. And this fox is on the prowl currently around 6pm in the daylight.
Frightening thought though eh?

[Peter]

Watch out David, hope you don't get the situation we had on one of our sites or what I had on my site.

On one site we have foxes and some plotholders feed them, so they "stay in" and use a couple of plots as their playground, rendering them near un-usable.

On my site we had an elderly plotholder, who was no longer cultivating, but was feeding foxes, about one dustbin a week of stuff, his plot was like the Somme, rotting bones and flesh everywhere and the rest of us kept finding meat they couldn't eat cached in our soft dug soil.

On an allotment site resident foxes are a damm nuiscance.

Transient foxes passing through and killing the odd rat are fine.