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SIX kits! That's quite a brood, indeed. Large families usually indicate decent nutritional resources. I wonder what the survival rate for those babies will be?Un - Bloody Believable; I just saw an unbelievable sight in my next door neighbours garden. I just glanced out of the window and I saw a mother fox with six cubs feeding under her, and a male fox standing guard. If only I had a film in my camera and a telephoto lens fitted, I could have taken a really great picture. They seem to be living under the neighbours patio, so I am going to load my camera and hope for another chance.
How do ya'll like our new camping trailer? (Not really, but this one did catch my eye.)
SIX kits! That's quite a brood, indeed. Large families usually indicate decent nutritional resources. I wonder what the survival rate for those babies will be?Un - Bloody Believable; I just saw an unbelievable sight in my next door neighbours garden. I just glanced out of the window and I saw a mother fox with six cubs feeding under her, and a male fox standing guard. If only I had a film in my camera and a telephoto lens fitted, I could have taken a really great picture. They seem to be living under the neighbours patio, so I am going to load my camera and hope for another chance.
I recall the pair of fox that raised a litter each year at my place in Eagle River. They bunked under the trailer in the yard and ate a lot of my strawberries. I loved to watch them romp and play. They were also the bane of any cat that got outside. One evening I heard the fight between foxes and one of my escaped cats. It did not end well for the cat. Eagles were a problem for both fox and cat, and I suspect many a fox kit ended up splattered on the windscreen of my car.Paint a picture of it for us with words. Mother nature sent you a special gift; treasure it.Damn and blast it. I am all twitchy, going to the window every few minutes to see if the foxes are back. But the probability is I will never get a chance at a picture like that again. I could have taken an award winning photo of the six fox cubs under their mother, and the male fox standing guard in front. But I don't suppose it will ever happen again.
After eight hours of looking out of the window every couple of minutes, the fox cubs and their mother fed out in the open where I could see them. But unfortunately it was dusk and there was not enough light. I took two pictures with my film camera but I doubt they are any good.. I took five with my digital camera, and the are too dark to be worth posting. Bummer !.
Diligence will pay off, stick with it. I find photographing wildlife most perplexing and suspect that those award-winning pics come at a great investment of time and effort.SIX kits! That's quite a brood, indeed. Large families usually indicate decent nutritional resources. I wonder what the survival rate for those babies will be?Un - Bloody Believable; I just saw an unbelievable sight in my next door neighbours garden. I just glanced out of the window and I saw a mother fox with six cubs feeding under her, and a male fox standing guard. If only I had a film in my camera and a telephoto lens fitted, I could have taken a really great picture. They seem to be living under the neighbours patio, so I am going to load my camera and hope for another chance.
I later counted seven. Since then they have not appeared much. They came out briefly at dusk last night. and once again there was not enough light for a picture. I took a couple with my Pentax with the shutter speed set to one second. But I doubt it will be any good as for one thing, at that speed I will probably get camera shake.
Its wearing me down waiting for them to come out again in daylight, which is when I first saw them. I spend most of my time going the window to see if they are there, as they make no sound so I have to hope I will look out and see them at the right time.
Hell, mid-May here and by eight in the morning, I'm running sweat and have my sleeves rolled up. Yesterday, it was almost 70F by 0930!!! Oh, wait...I suppose this is all relative...Daisy the Mutt and I took our daily walk in the park yesterday. I wore a long sleeve sweatshirt. I should have worn more! Mid-May and we endured a sleet storm as we walked. It felt more like mid-October.
The lawn needs to be mowed again. But I reason if I have to bundle up just to cut the grass, the grass can wait.
Diligence will pay off, stick with it. I find photographing wildlife most perplexing and suspect that those award-winning pics come at a great investment of time and effort.
"Them!"...and "The Crawling Eye"One of my favorite movies when I was a kid.Stay away from Alamogordo the giant ants might still be there. Not sure if you will get the movie reference .Basically we've decided, regardless as to whether or not the wife gets this job, we will be moving to New Mexico. Albuquerque offers the best opportunities for jobs but we'd both honestly prefer the Alamogordo/Tularosa area.
That seems to be the story of our lives, doesn't it? That perfect moment and something so simple causes us to miss the opportunity. Good luck with the efforts, though. I'd love to see any pics you get. I always liked foxes, even if they did eat some of my cats.Diligence will pay off, stick with it. I find photographing wildlife most perplexing and suspect that those award-winning pics come at a great investment of time and effort.
The frustrating thing is that when I first saw them they were in the perfect position, in perfect lighting and the perfect composition. But I had no film in my camera and I did not have the telephoto lens fitted. So by the time I had done that they had gone. I doubt I will ever get another chance at that perfect shot.
That seems to be the story of our lives, doesn't it? That perfect moment and something so simple causes us to miss the opportunity. Good luck with the efforts, though. I'd love to see any pics you get. I always liked foxes, even if they did eat some of my cats.Diligence will pay off, stick with it. I find photographing wildlife most perplexing and suspect that those award-winning pics come at a great investment of time and effort.
The frustrating thing is that when I first saw them they were in the perfect position, in perfect lighting and the perfect composition. But I had no film in my camera and I did not have the telephoto lens fitted. So by the time I had done that they had gone. I doubt I will ever get another chance at that perfect shot.
Welp the wife did not get the UNM job, kinda figured that would happen as universities tend to hire people with Masters or Doctorates for manager positions, she only has a Bachlors. I have my SSDI hearing set for the end of August, in the mean time we now have to make a couple decisions concerning accessing some money we don't want to touch and whether to move and where to move to.
Practice getting things going before you need the ability. I have missed so much trying to figure out how things work as the desired subject passes before my eyes.That seems to be the story of our lives, doesn't it? That perfect moment and something so simple causes us to miss the opportunity. Good luck with the efforts, though. I'd love to see any pics you get. I always liked foxes, even if they did eat some of my cats.Diligence will pay off, stick with it. I find photographing wildlife most perplexing and suspect that those award-winning pics come at a great investment of time and effort.
The frustrating thing is that when I first saw them they were in the perfect position, in perfect lighting and the perfect composition. But I had no film in my camera and I did not have the telephoto lens fitted. So by the time I had done that they had gone. I doubt I will ever get another chance at that perfect shot.
There was a cat hanging around the fox hole last night. I was wondering if it would get more than it bargained for.
If it turns into a fight I would love to get it on video, and my digital camera has video capability. But I have never used it so I am not sure how well I would do in video mode. Added to that I have no tripod so I would get camera shake holding the camera and doing video by hand.
Hell, mid-May here and by eight in the morning, I'm running sweat and have my sleeves rolled up. Yesterday, it was almost 70F by 0930!!! Oh, wait...I suppose this is all relative...Daisy the Mutt and I took our daily walk in the park yesterday. I wore a long sleeve sweatshirt. I should have worn more! Mid-May and we endured a sleet storm as we walked. It felt more like mid-October.
The lawn needs to be mowed again. But I reason if I have to bundle up just to cut the grass, the grass can wait.
