Fox on the rec

The country foxes that live near us are becoming bolder, increasingly urbanised. I saw one eyeing up the magpies on the local football pitch this evening and then another just chilling between two houses on an area in the village we know locally as the “birds estate”. It’s a development where each road is named for a bird…named for the birds you don’t see any more on such housing estates, ironically enough. Fox on the rec, licking its lips in anticipation of grabbing a tasty magpie for supper Phone snapshot of the housing estate fox It’s worth noting that as with other orange-red predators, including tigers, they look more greeny-grey than vivid orange in the eyes of much of their prey, which generally have limited colour vision and, unlike humans, have just two cones in their retinae, instead of our three.

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