This time I tried foxcam looking over the garden fence without any bait, just to see what might normally be happening outside in the woods. What a treat. Quite early in the evening, a bit before 21:00, a Fox was…
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New Location
Following a couple of failed attempts at attracting wildlife into our back garden with left over bones and carcasses since our neighbour’s new fence was installed, I decided to move the trailcam down to monitor the woodland over our back…
Posted in 2022 Fox Tales
Redundant
For Sale; Bushnell Prime Low-Glow trailcam. Free gift: 3 sets of lithium batteries. The last two carcasses that have gone out have been ignored by everything but blasted cats. The first of those went out on a filthy night with…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Effin’ Cats
Having stocked up on four sets of lithium batteries to power foxcam, I haven’t been putting it out recently. TBH, the images it captures are such rubbish and the video is even worse that I have become somewhat disenchanted with…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Dust Up
Some weeks ago at one of our all-too-infrequent [once a month] farmers market days, I bought a venison haunch from our favourite game butcher. I left it wrapped and put in the freezer until the time felt right. On Friday…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
Oxburgh Versus Oxborough
A National Truss – sorry, National Trust – day and a bit of a conundrum. Beside the village of Oxborough lies Oxburgh Hall. Why the different spelling, I wonder? Go figure, as Amerispeak would have it. Along with woodland walks,…
Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk
On the Trail of Pingos
This always makes me think of 101 Dalmatians; Pongo, if memory serves, was the father of said batch of painfully cute Disney Dalmatian puppies. Ya gotta love ‘em. A pingo, on the other hand, is “a periglacial landform”. So there!…
Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk
A Desert Rats Tale
We’re back in Nelson’s county, good ol’ Norfolk, but not anywhere near the Broads this time; we’ve come to Thetford Forest to enjoy the English summer which, this year, appears to be about a week between 15th and 23rd July.…
Posted in 2021-07 Norfolk
Skywatcher
I resorted to scattered peanuts again hoping that a badger might be tempted into our garden again. No such luck. We did, however, attract a very attractive fox; it looks sleek and pristine and maybe a bit small so is…
Posted in 2021 Fox Tales
At Last!
Lamb shoulder bones were on the menu again for Foxcam last night. We really are addicted to barbecued lamb shoulder. The bones were gratefully cleaned up by our latest fox with the kink in its brush. It would be intriguing…
Posted in 2019 Sri Lanka
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