I had a nice photographic surprise this week.

My kids had told me they’d seen a fox in the street a few times, during the day. I’d not seen it at all. Then one night last week I heard some noises outside as I lay in bed around 3.30am. I looked out to see the fox had come up onto our porch & wa splaying with a paper bag full of tennis balls which had been left by the front door. It managed to get stuck in the bag & I watched it running around for a good ten minutes trying to get its leg out of the bag.

The following night I took ourpuppy for a walk around 2.30am & we saw the fox at the end of the street. We watched it for a few minutes, it stayed about 10 yards from us & wasn’t spooked in the slightest. It then followed us down the road. Every time we stopped, it stopped, and every time we started it followed.

The next 3 nights I took my camera with me on our early morning dog walk, but didn’t see the fox.

I was cooking tea the other evening when my wife told me the fox was on the grass bank outside the house. I went out & so it was, together with about 10 adults & kids all looking at it.

I grabbed the camera which already had the 100-400L fitted & took the following shots.

I was no more than 5 or 6 yards from the creature, which didn;t appear to be in the slightest bit othered with all the human interest & activity just a few yards from it.

Unfortunately, the light was very harsh which has resulted in some blown highlights in the chest fur especially on the first shot, but it was great to get my first ever shots of a fox.