Fox cubs, day 4

Went to site today and couldn't find them.  Could see some footprints (human) next to their holes, so there is a chance that they had been spooked.  Hopefully they'll be back about on Monday.

Here are a few more images from the previous days...

Fox cubs, day 3.

It was raining a fair bit today.  I spent an hour watching a rain sodden piece of waste ground and saw a Meadow Pipit.  That isn't what I had hoped to see.  So I briefly popped in on the way home to hopefully see my two new favourite mammals.  Except that I couldn't find two little Fox cubs - I could find four.   FOUR fox cubs that had spend most of the day couped up in a den that were playing around with each other little more than 20 feet away. 

Normally I would say rude words in these circumstances, but instead I said nothing.  What is there to say?

Fox cubs, day 2

Don't know how long this will last, but it is pretty cool to have a Fox cub staring right into the lens wondering what the little click-click-click noise is all about.

Fox cubs. No, really.

Following on from Fox pictures earlier in the year, here is one of the cubs.  There is another one but it is a much less of a tart in front of a camera.

Enjoy.

Don't worry, I've got loads more...

Little Owl again

Although this time it was in a regular spot and less hurried.

Commuting tick!

You know all those belting award winning Little Owl photos that you see of them with really uncluttered backgrounds in the late evening sun when their eyes glow like angry wasps? You know the ones.

Great aren't they?

Well this is what you get if you find a Little Owl with a manky eye on top of a road sign that is next to a hedge first thing in the morning. When your camera is zipped up in the bag and set up for what you were doing yesterday lunchtime.

I've gone past this junction well over a thousand times on the way to work, and I have never EVER seen a Little Owl. A Barn Owl a few hundred yards further up in a harsh winter, yes.  But not a Little Owl.  This is the first I have seen on a commute.  I shall dawdle through this section of the Norfolk countryside in future.*

Great, isn't it?

*Obviously I stay within the prescribed speed limits at all times.  Absolutely Officer.  In the future I shall just be more annoying to other motorists who need to get to work NOW!!!  Woe betide anyone who tailgates me in this particular parish!

Egrets, I've had a few...

Yes, that is a bad pun.  So bad that it isn't the first time I've found an excuse to use it.

Here are three recent Egret photos to at least provide a reason for me showcasing my quite incredible wit.

Some garden birds from the weekend

And yes, the Robin has got a gammy leg.

A couple from the last week

A couple of  photos from the last week, it hardly constitutes a weekly highlights title but here they are...

This little critter is elusive.  He is easy enough to find because he doesn't shut up.  But he is camera shy.  But I am patient...

The early Wheatear season has been dogged by uncooperative birds.  Where I am, they are not.  Where they are, I am not.  Occasionally the Venn diagram of fate allows us some brief seconds together...

Hare, eventually

Went out on Saturday.  Came across a field with some Hares in it.  Got camera out.  Realised that I took the wrong battery out earlier in the day.  Didn't take any photos.  Swore a bit.

Went out on Sunday.  Came across a familiar field with some Hares in it.  Got camera out.  Took some photos.  Didn't swear.

There, I managed to post a whole post about Hares without quoting Michael Elphick.  Although it was very difficult.