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A bit OTT I know - but I've never seen the fox during the day. It's
just done a daring daylight raid taking all the bread that was on the
floor before legging it.

Is it very abnormal to see them during the day?
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More likely at this time of the year when they have young to feed but no
foxes are not necessarily nocturnal I've seen them out on the moors in
daylight hours.and urban foxes very occasionally when there is no
disturbance. a few on youtube http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNjlBESGoU
Derek

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"mogga" wrote in message
news A bit OTT I know - but I've never seen the fox during the day. It's
just done a daring daylight raid taking all the bread that was on the
floor before legging it.

Is it very abnormal to see them during the day?
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SNIP
We have had foxes living just over the fence at the bottom of our garden
for nearly 30 years, the hedgerow is bordering a school playing field,
but
was a market garden and nursery before that. normally only see them at
night when they set security light off strolling down the garden.
Last year my wife and I wandered down the garden and found a young fox
lying
on the gravel enjoying the sun, when we got within 8 foot of him/her it
jumped the fence into next doors and proceeded to lay on the slabs beside
their pond and soak up the sun, stayed there for some time until one of
our
dogs barked for attention, and calmly strolled off and over the fence at
the
bottom. Hows that for cheek.


Or mange? ;-( It slows them down, makes them less swiftly responsive. I
hope I am wrong.


It looked fit and healthy, couple of days later saw it racing across the
school playing fields from the gardens across the field, with what sounded
like a large dog barking its head off in the gardens.
Few years ago, my daughter saw one in our garden, she was looking after the
house whilst we were on hols. Had nasty gash on its hind leg, left food out
for it for few weeks, on the advice of PDSA, after that saw it fit and well.
think it has become so used to us being around not so scared anymore.
regards
Cineman


In the first case, doesn't sound mangy, so good. In the second case, gash
on hind leg, not so good but outcome seems okay. One of the pro/anti hunt
argument rages was as to the method of killing foxes which, at times, some
argue, must be done. Shooting foxes is out of the question because they
move swiftly and can be merely wounded. But now it is, apparently,
acceptable.
Having been wounded their wounds become gangrenous and they die a horrible,
lingering death, unable to hunt and feed. Unlike dogs, they cannot lick
their wounds clean. I have never hunted and never would or could but if you
ignore the class rowlocks that is talked of in that regard, the reason the
hunt people frown so blackly on shooting foxes is *precisely* for this
reason. It is not kind unless there is a clean kill. Wounded, the fox goes
to ground and dies horribly.

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South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
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A bit OTT I know - but I've never seen the fox during the day. It's
just done a daring daylight raid taking all the bread that was on the
floor before legging it.

Is it very abnormal to see them during the day?

Unusual but it does happen. I've seen them dash across a lane here a few
times and Ray tells me there used to be a big old dog fox that sat at the
top of the field behind us, just watching everyone.

There used to be an old one that wondered around the car park where
I worked.
It and others lived under a wooden prefab building.

There's a spinney at the top of the back field and a large pine wood a bit
further away, so I imagine they like those for shelter.

We see them all the time these days. Yesterday we saw our first
hedgehog in the garden after some 20 years or mo great celebration!
This afternoon my husband looked out of the window to see the fox
galloping off with what looked very much like a rolled-up hedgehog :-(((

That is interesting. I have not heard of a fox taking a hedgehog
before unless it was a baby without hard spines. As far as I was aware
the only thing to predate on hedgehogs (other than man/cars) is the
badger which is strong enough to prise them apart and get at the
spineless bits.

Well, I'm still hoping that it wasn't one - or, if it was a baby, that
there is lots more of its family left!

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Klara, Gatwick basin

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"Martin" wrote:

On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:32:11 +0100, Sacha
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On 2/6/08 15:14, in article ,
"mogga" wrote:

A bit OTT I know - but I've never seen the fox during the day. It's
just done a daring daylight raid taking all the bread that was on the
floor before legging it.

Is it very abnormal to see them during the day?

Unusual but it does happen. I've seen them dash across a lane here a few
times and Ray tells me there used to be a big old dog fox that sat at the
top of the field behind us, just watching everyone.

There used to be an old one that wondered around the car park where I
worked.
It and others lived under a wooden prefab building.

There's a spinney at the top of the back field and a large pine wood a bit
further away, so I imagine they like those for shelter.

We see them all the time these days. Yesterday we saw our first
hedgehog in the garden after some 20 years or mo great celebration!
This afternoon my husband looked out of the window to see the fox
galloping off with what looked very much like a rolled-up hedgehog :-(((


Oh dear! Well, at least you know why you haven't seen hedgehogs for a long
time! My daughter, who lives a few hundred yards from us gets them all the
time but we rarely see them. I just wonder if that's because it's easier
for badgers to get into our garden than hers.

The milkman says he does see badgers around here very early in the
morning, though we've never seen them. I just hope that if there was one
hedgehog, it wasn't the only one!

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