Always Watching
Saturday, 4. July 2009, 21:48:08
To be precise, she actually made several short visits in quick succession. I thought that she had continued on her nightly route after the first one, and carefully slipped out into the garden. But she was watching me, sitting just the other side of the hedgerow and peering through the branches - obviously content that there was a barrier between us!
She's a pretty fox, very graceful in her movements. I am struggling with a name for her; "Tip Vixen" just seems too obvious (she has the tiniest little white tip on her brush). I am sorely tempted to go with "Pickpocket Vixen"
It's been another hot day, and very little was moving during my walk this morning except butterflies around blackberry bushes. The fruit are still completely green, of course, but many creatures (including local humans!) will take advantage of them once they have ripened. In the meantime, meadow browns utilise the flowers
Meanwhile, a collared dove rested on a telegraph pole; perhaps the choice of wires for perching was too overwhelming!
And while I see gliders very frequently here, I rarely observe three in the sky at once, so I thought that it warranted a photo.
But the main interest for me today has been the arrival of a package from the USA
























