Things are heating up

As I write this I find my thoughts already turning towards the time of year when the foxes’ mating season is on the horizon. As is generally the case, since the start of October reports begin to come in of foxes starting to pair up. I too have seen pairs of foxes at this time of year but I’ve always found that they are invariably siblings that have been born in the current year and are just running together. Perhaps this happens as food slowly starts becoming that much harder to locate.

Certainly, vocalisation between vixens and their offspring seem to increase as we move into October. This year in particular, activity between the old foxes and their offspring seems to have been fairly intense round here. We’ve shot several, but in every case the “pairs” have turned out to be youngsters, more often than not of the same