wlaidlaw Posted June 9, 2012 Share #1 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I was sitting reading a book and listening to Rigoletto from the Met at around 9PM in my house in France this evening (footie on the TV), when I noticed some movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked round, expecting to see our neighbour's cat, Madame Marmalade, who will sometimes call in for a late night snack. I was astonished to see two fox cubs looking in through one of my windows. As soon as I moved, one ran away but the other was a modelling natural and posed for me for the next five minutes. It was so relaxed, it looked as if it was going to go to sleep on the terrace, which was still warm from the evening sun. Â Taken with an M9, 135 Tele-Elmar and SF58D flash. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wlaidlaw Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share #2 Â Posted June 9, 2012 Just to show it was not a stuffed toy - here is another pic. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauledell Posted June 10, 2012 Share #3 Â Posted June 10, 2012 Wilson, Â These are delightful pictures. I love the expressions on his face in both pictures. Â Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iduna Posted June 10, 2012 Share #4 Â Posted June 10, 2012 Wilson, Â what a nice coinidence and and good story. This attentive fellow will become a Verdi-fan too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted June 10, 2012 Share #5 Â Posted June 10, 2012 Wilson - Â Adorable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted June 10, 2012 Share #6  Posted June 10, 2012 Cute little guys  Thanks fo posting  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share #7  Posted June 14, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am just watching the same pair of cubs this morning from my bedroom window. They are trying to work out how to get a drink out of the swimming pool. It is an old style pool with the water level about 25cm below the edge and they just cannot reach. I am waiting for one to fall in and I will have to go and rescue it with the leaves removal net.  Wilson  PS Just went to get my M9 to take a photo, put the 135 T-E on only to see one of the cubs had managed to find the steps, tasted the water and rushed off. The pool was only opened up yesterday morning and as usual after the winter, it looked a bit like pea soup. Monsieur pisciniste had therefore put a load of hydrogen peroxide in it to release the bound chlorine into useful free chlorine. I don't imagine therefore it tasted very nice. W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share #8 Â Posted June 14, 2012 Latest photo this evening. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJP Posted June 18, 2012 Share #9 Â Posted June 18, 2012 Great little animals, good to see them so relaxed & happy. Enjoy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share #10 Â Posted June 18, 2012 Great little animals, good to see them so relaxed & happy. Enjoy! Â Stephen, Â If this was in the UK, where we keep chickens, my reactions to Masters Foxy-Woxy would be somewhat different. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJP Posted June 18, 2012 Share #11  Posted June 18, 2012 Wilson  Indeed, they can be a great nuisance. But still quite high on my top 10 list of favorite animals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lax Jought Posted June 18, 2012 Share #12 Â Posted June 18, 2012 Nice photos, I love the first one in particular. I wonder what happened to the mother? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share #13 Â Posted June 18, 2012 Nice photos, I love the first one in particular. I wonder what happened to the mother? Â I can still hear the mother or at least a vixen in the near vicinity. She may well have a new mate and have kicked out the adolescent cubs from the previous litter. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lax Jought Posted June 18, 2012 Share #14 Â Posted June 18, 2012 I have foxes in my area too but they are very rarely seen. In the decade I've lived here, I've only seen glimpses of the foxes from a distance maybe about 4 or 5 times in total and only in the very early hours of the morning when the neighbourhood is asleep. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted June 18, 2012 Author Share #15 Â Posted June 18, 2012 In England, foxes are very common. We often see them in our garden, circling round the chicken run like a bunch of Indians round a wagon train. In spring, we would hear foxes every night. The vixens scream and it is a very eerie sound: Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lax Jought Posted June 18, 2012 Share #16 Â Posted June 18, 2012 wow I had no idea they sounded like that. I've never heard such a thing around here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicamann Posted June 19, 2012 Share #17  Posted June 19, 2012 Very nice..love these guys.. also very cute !!  Thanks for sharing your photography  Cheers, JRM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted June 20, 2012 Share #18 Â Posted June 20, 2012 Hello Wilson, Â Nice photos, Â Best Regards, Â Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted June 20, 2012 Share #19 Â Posted June 20, 2012 Hello Wilson, Â Nice photos, Â Best Regards, Â Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted June 20, 2012 Share #20 Â Posted June 20, 2012 Cool! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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