Hey bud, sorry Roger been AWOL these last couple of weeks, mainly graft no fun pushing to get alot done ........... it's a freak i'm responding to this , simply your alert, I just came to browse for a mo afore sleep
.......................I haven't seen or had a mo to read anything much above , my apologies, .
I think we are maybe still getting a here and there visit but I have physically seen nothing of any of them since me little mate cubbing's got clobbered. by her brother, which I know you know of, hmm not unexpected, but nonetheless, hard stuff !!
Roger I'm as certain as I can be without a sighting we are still being visited ahh the joys of a cam trap and 24/7 eyes on the ground......... it would give me details , they are still around. I'm really sure on that. I suspect it's mum now Roger. possibly just her and only her but I have nothing to confirm that. Looking back a couple of years with that hindsight I think this happened last year aswell. I'll learn more in the spring if I'm still standing
I think i'll know PK again. I never had a dad ( dog fox) here Roger not one sighting, I know nothing of that story but I would have seen him I really did the hours I should have seen him surely?
Now ,was he simply too wary to come into a rural garden next to large dogs?did he get killed on a road?? a lambing pen?? I have no answers. But the absence is there does that mean if she lost her mate while rearing these she will loose her territory, come spring or does the matriach rule in fox land???
Mate I've always thought charlie has a territiory but patrols areas say a few nights on the trot then shifts slightly, find a more sustained food source visits become more regular. I suspect the adults are almost scouting now. that's why breif visits They (adults ) aren't feeding a family:, autumn is a time of plenty, before the hardships of winter. they'll be back on that more nomadic lifestyle of an oppurtunist still searching the next meal but not terribly hungry keeping tabs on ya patch if ya like
I wonder whether we will see more in dec, as they run up condition to court and mate maybe earlier. nov ??
Ha forever the optimist
the badgers are mixing it up,
Bud if I don't respond for a few please don't think me rude tis not that ,next week is set to be hard I can see it already which is never good
take care