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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 3179320" data-attributes="member: 36432">Its not a hijack, we've been international all year! IMHO:1. Lynx2. Domestic/Wild Cat3. Canis sp. Probably not Wolf, maybe too big for Red Fox. Domestic dog would be my guess.Not, of course, that I do much tracking in snow: but between one thing and another I have looked at quite a lot of real and imaged Lynx tracks lately and several Wolf tracks too. (My brother is at his in-laws in Finland just now and has texted me pix of Lynx tracks: if he sees the animal there will be trouble.)Meantime back in England there has been fox action chez Dixon.Last night I forgot to put a chicken leg out till late, so chucked one out of the door on my way to bed. I was settling down when I heard "Yarr, yarrr" and an answering meek "Yip, yip, yip": looking out of the window I saw not one but two foxes on the lawn, one clearly enjoying a chicken leg and the other being kept at bay by pecking order issues.Its a secret and you mustn't tell anyone, but I'm a soft git at heart so I got up again, slipped downstairs to the fridge and took out two more chicken legs. When I opened the door both foxes retreated ten yards or so (in opposite directions) but as I threw out first one then another morsel, their attention sharpened and they started back towards me. Our regular friend with the black smudge on the front of his ear and a nice white tip to his brush basically trotted straight in, grabbed the new snack and departed stage right. The other fox had a bit of a think, took an indirect route across next door's lawn up close to their house and then made a diagonal approach (thus facing partly away from me) to take the other drumstick and depart back left.Everybody happy, I went back to bed and slept the sleep of the just.Tonight Maz called me from the front of the house where she was taking the night air to say that a fox was about twenty yards away waiting patiently. I quickly extracted tonight's ration from the fridge and put it out. Foxy came straight in and grabbed it before I was ready with the camera (unsporting!) but only retreated to the nearby green where Maz had spotted him. Again I went for the resupply option and quickly settled down camera at the ready.The fox approached to within a few yards, saw me in the hall, paused, gathered his courage and trotted in for his reward while the camera flash fired three times. Once again, everybody happy. Pix later.John</blockquote>

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