No time to post, have a fox instead (229/365)

[white_hart]

Running along the street in north Oxford, bold as anything at 6:45pm.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

Wow! I love that. I don't think I've ever seen a fox.

[white_hart]

Urban foxes are pretty common here but it's unusual to see them in daylight.

[nineveh_uk]

Oddly, I never seen them round here at all. I must not be out at the right time.

[el_staplador]

We had one very brazen one when we lived in Woking but I don't think I've seen one since.

[sir_guinglain]

Reminds me of a fox I saw at that time of day in West London once, clearly in its body language trying to fit in with the people around it as they walked home from work.

[white_hart]

Oh, fabulous!

[cmcmck]

I do like their cheek.

We're rural enough that it's really no surprise here.

[white_hart]

I've definitely seen more urban foxes than rural ones!

[lilysea]

Fox! ^_^

Did you see the Attenborough documentary about how animals were feeling more comfortable moving thru the world as humans stayed home due to COVID?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XswV_yqPq28

[white_hart]

No, I didn't - I will have to check it out. Though I think urban foxes have always been pretty confident.

[jesuswasbatman]

A few weeks ago I was on a bus in central London at about 1630 and saw a fox casually stroll across the pelican crossing at the junction of Bloomsbury Street and New Oxford Street, along with the humans when the crossing went green.

[white_hart]

Wonderful!

[lokifan]

I love urban foxes so much, especially the cheeky ones <3 We've got some here (south-east London). I've got sort of superstitious about them as guardian figures - I felt much better going home late through a Tottenham park after a fox passed - because when I lived in Lewisham I got street harassment EVERY TIME I came home after midnight, for over a year. Til one night, when one was heading home to the garden in front of my block of flats just ahead of me. No trouble that time, just a fox turning round every few metres like 'are you following me?'

[white_hart]

That definitely sounds like a guardian fox!

[ironed_orchid]

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