Tuesday 20 December 2011

Fox catches squirrel









This fox hunting a squirrel has appeared to be doing it for some weeks now but it,s the first time i,ve caught it on camera.In the first pic the squirrel can be seen in the top left of the picture and in the next pic is caught.To the extreme right of the 3rd picture shows another squirrel safely on a branch,there has been quite regularly 2 squirrels scampering about here together.After that another squirrel pokes about and then the fox shows up again quite obviously after another one.I,ve never seen a picture of this happening before and can only remember finding a squirrel carcase that could of been attributed as a fox kill only once before.Some foxes,like most predators,can specialise in targeting certain quarry.

Annoyingly though i checked this cam today to find that the card had filled to 6000 odd pics,still with battery life left mind and had left the last 2 weeks unguarded so to speak.I last checked it a month ago and have been cutting it a bit close to the bone every time as this spot is a hive of,mostly squirrel and rabbit,activity as each time the card has been close to filling or the batteries near to running out.Who knows what has happened at this camspot in the meantime in fact noone will ever know so it,s every 2 weeks to check from now on,live and learn as they say.....

7 comments:

  1. Wow...yet more acts of predation caught by your cams. I can't believe how often you catch this stuff!!

    Another good set of photos.

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  2. You've caught some interesting behaviour there.

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  3. Thanks Trailblazer and Roger B.for your comments,i think these wooded glades are hives of activity rather than just say animal runs where there is mostly movement backwards and forwards...

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  4. Cool mate! I did not get any predator for a long time on my Bushnell...

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  5. I would love to get pics of wild boar like you do Bushcraftercz!

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  6. Nicely caught. The thought of going through 6000 odd image files makes me shudder. I usually visit my cameras once a week.

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  7. Hello Ron,it will be a bit more frequent from now on....

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