The badger and the spider

Roe deer eating something

2nd fox comes along

A second fox comes in from the left,i think these two might be cubs.........

Fox eating at night

Can,t be too sure what this fox has got to eat but this place is one big hive of activity for foxes.They are backwards and forwards all day long,night and day,often with some sort of thing in their mouths........

Same fox

Fow with something else

Fox with young rabbit

I had to look hard but i think it,s a young rabbit that this fox has got...........

2 rabbits bucking

Be it dry or be it wet

Be it dry or be it wet,the weather will always pay it,s debt so goes the saying.The 3 month drought has been smashed to smithereens by 2" of rain this week so all us growers can rest a little easier in our beds now and this good soak should bring things on a little though it,s too late for some stuff like maize.Big cats have been in the media spotlight again this week with a pawprint on the tv show "Real rescues" and a statement by a wildlife crime officer that they (big cats)do exist.Problems with all things like blogger connected to laptops at the moment has prevented me from posting a link but i have put one up in the news bit on bigcatsinsussex.co.uk(link to this site in the side column)For some reason Blogger won,t let me comment on blogs,not even my own,but i,ve posted these brace and a half of pics especially for Trailblazer,it,s a rat neatly skinned inside out by what i think was a fox found by one of my mutts in the field opposite the trail camera that took the fox with a rat in it,s mouth picture.......

Fallow deer with very bad leg

Roe doe eating leaves

The recent gale had blown some hazel leaves on the ground.........

Roe doe eating windfall leaves

Roebuck eating some leaves

Fox with something in it,s mouth

I don,t know what this fox has in it,s mouth but it must of been alive once......

Fox with rat in mouth

Although this fox is having a wee it still has a rat in it,s mouth,class act......

2 fox cubs at night

Problems with the laptop software upload,at least that,s what it could be,has meant delays in uploading pics so i,m just doing 1 at a time for now........

The drought is over

The drought is over,for now anyway.A good 1/2" of rain on sunday has given everything a good soak the first for round here since early march.Northern parts of the county even though they are only 15 miles away had some rain last week.All the crops are stunted with the maize looking on it,s last legs but things should recover a little now.Not much from the camera trapping round for some reason but the mutts still enjoyed themselves larking about the riverbank .The mare with it,s foal that,s only a week old are near where a cam is set and i couldn,t resist a couple of snaps,they instictively keep stride together.........

Roe doe with kid

This kid looks very young,too young to be trotting about the forest like this in daylight so i assume the doe thought where the kid was lying up wasn,t safe either that or her browse was running out,whatever the reason it,s extremely rare for this to happen but then the trailcam is in a glade amongst some very thick cover so maybe they do shift their kids about quite a lot for no apparent reason in these type of places but it,s not seen much.What i don,t like to see are pictures taken by humans of roe kids in their lyes as the does know a human has been about and shift them exposing them to needless risk just for the sake of a picture or 2.I have seen a roe doe panicking at the edge of a field while a nature rambler photographed idly snapping away who was no doubt thinking that their indiscretion would have no ill effects.........