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  1. Farnboro John

    Patch

    It's not easy being an urban fox. There’s a lot of pressure on territory holders from dispersing foxes or even from within the skulk as males mature. When the male changes, usually (not always) the vixen does too, so in most cases when a territorial male is displaced, the female loses her...
  2. Farnboro John

    Patch

    2023 At the start of 2023 – on the evening of New Year’s Day - Patch fought in front of us with Scally: it was inconclusive but a sign that Patch and Smudge, now fully adult and heavily muscled, might not put up with the interloper much longer. We suspected skirmishing was going on out of sight...
  3. Farnboro John

    Patch

    2022 Part 2 19th May fox update: …In general I've been visited by a core team of four adult foxes (dogs Smudge, Scally and Patch, and vixen Rip) with occasional appearances from Psycho and Hoppity, so entire team present and correct. Smudge tends to arrive, load up with chicken drumsticks...
  4. Farnboro John

    Patch

    2022: 8th January: ….The foxes have been more site loyal than they usually are around Christmas. I mentioned upthread that five of the seven have already checked in this year. However, this being the peak of the mating season, the boys are pretty pumped at the moment, and I noticed on a pic...
  5. Farnboro John

    Patch

    2021 (Part 2) And in August of that year some interesting anecdotes: ….Farnborough fox update: this morning Patch (by now the bolder one of last year's male cubs) was around when I headed out to the car and trotted intermittently ahead of me, allowing photos in the end and listening with...
  6. Farnboro John

    Patch

    2021 Whitey hung on in the fringes of the skulk for three months but after that either found another territory too far away for journeys to get chicken or faded out as dispossessed foxes tend to do. Patch although generally second fiddle to Smudge had his own way of doing things and he...
  7. Farnboro John

    Patch

    In the spring of 2020, while humans were locked down and wildlife watchers had to take what sightings they could get, Big Whitey and his vixen Rip produced a litter of cubs. They were born near the end of March, with Rip showing full teats on feeding visits to my front door from 28th. Two males...
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