SS15 wildlife watching

This blog was set up in mid-March 2020 during the emerging COVID-19 health crisis in the UK. It initially aimed to provide records of wildlife sightings and photographs from sites within walking distance of my home in the SS15 postcode area of Basildon in Essex during lockdown travel restrictions. Even though the pandemic has largely subsided, this blog continues to include my local wildlife sightings, my trips away from home plus some personal thoughts and reflections on other issues.

Sunday 17 May 2020

Red Foxes at St. Nicholas Church

My time with the Red Foxes this morning was again almost entirely spent watching the usual vixen and mother to the cubs plus another individual possibly from a neighbouring territory.

Unlike all of my other recent visits, I had only fleeting glimpses of the cubs and failed to get any photos of them.

I also had to wait for over an hour before my first sighting of a Red Fox. Like yesterday, this was of an individual in the green area adjacent to Church Hill.

I was not sure if this was the vixen but a few minutes later the vixen did emerge with food at the edge of the car park.

Almost immediately, another Red Fox appeared and tried to mug her! They both ran off in to the undergrowth so I have no idea if the vixen successfully held on to the food that she would have been taking to the den for the cubs.