Visitors who have been popping into "Yorkshire Pudding" for a long time may remember that since I retired I have derived a great deal of pleasure from the Geograph photo-mapping project to which, at the last count, I have submitted 18,638 photographs.
Geograph has increased my motivation to get outside walking and it has also taught me a great deal about the geography and history of these fabulous and fascinating islands - The British Isles.
I do not know exactly how many active contributors are still sending their images to Geograph but it will be somewhere around ten thousand people who live all over this country and in Ireland too.
In recent months, I have been impressed by fox pictures taken by a contributor called Peter Trimming. He has gathered them in West Brompton Cemetery, London. It is bang next to Stamford Bridge - the home ground of Chelsea F.C. and about a mile from where my son lives - along Lillie Road past North End Road to Fulham.
In the past, Shirley and I have explored West Brompton Cemetery. It is where the women's suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is buried. Go here. During our visit, we saw squirrels and pigeons but we did not spot any foxes. They may have smelled us coming.
However, Peter Trimming has had much better luck and below I have picked just six of his magical fox pictures to share with you...
And finally, using my Google detective skills, I was able to track down a picture of the old fox himself - the man responsible for these images. Let us applaud Peter Trimming. Such patience, such technical skill and such affection for urban foxes...
Well snapped, Peter, some stunning fox images. You must spend an awful lot of time hanging around the cemetery.... the dead end of town.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photos! Foxes are such beautiful animals.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of these lovely foxes. I am an animal and nature lover. Thank you so much for sharing, and warm greetings from Montreal, Canada. Oh, and green is my favourite colour, like your blog background.
ReplyDeleteI do love foxes. They are the perfect blend of cat and dog, and they are not big enough to terrify. Beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. Thanks for sharing them with us, Neil!
ReplyDeleteFoxes are elusive critters to spot. Cute, though, when you do.
ReplyDeleteMr Trimming is indeed talented and, I suspect, very patient. Wonderful photos.
ReplyDeleteI like the six photos you have chosen.
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos!
ReplyDeleteVery nice fox photos. I have only ever seen one fox, it was running through the grounds here where I live and I have never seen it again.
ReplyDeleteThese are great! Thank you for sharing them - you know how much I love foxes. The silhouette one is probably my favourite of this selection.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Peter Trimming. He and our blogging friend Steve could team up; Steve providing footage from his wildlife camera in the garden, and Peter taking portraits to identify each individual fox.
They are indeed excellent photos. Steve should get busy with a night camera in his backyard.
ReplyDeletel also love foxes, they are a much maligned creature and there shouldn't be too many live chickens in London for them to terrorise. The fox is learning to become urbanised and feast on our food leftovers.
ReplyDeleteSuperb photos - well worth the hours he must have spent taking them.
ReplyDeleteFoxes seem to be much braver in urban locations.
ReplyDeleteThese are excellent. Foxes seem to be well loved, maybe because they are so like our beloved dogs
ReplyDeleteFunny , but country foxes are so much more elusive
ReplyDeleteI’ve not seen a living one for years
Glorious photographs, and a tribute to the photographer's patience. I love seeing foxes, though I know others hate them passionately. I suppose I would if I kept hens.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, I haven't seen our local foxes in a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteThose are beautiful foxes. I haven't been too many in the last few years, but when I do see one, I am in awe.
ReplyDeleteI am lucky. Living in London, I see foxes daily. We have them living in our communal garden. I always know when they're about as the neighbour's dog start barking furiously. Very often when I'm driving back from choir rehearsals late at night I'll see them crossing the road with no care in the world. I used to feed the ones in the garden but then read it was unfair because that stops them being self-sufficient so I stopped feeding them. Kay now has one living at the bottom of her garden now too.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely photos. We have foxes here (red and gray), but I seldom see them. They're quite elusive.
ReplyDeleteFoxes are well loved by your readers. I think it's the resemblance to dogs that attracts us all.
ReplyDeleteThe photos are wonderful
I had commented on this yesterday but there was trouble publishing it, so wan't sure if my comments had arrived. So here I go again..... I am lucky to have foxes living in our communal garden. I always know when they are about as the all the neighbours' dogs start barking. I used to feed them, but then read it is not fair to disturb their normal hunting routines by relying on human hand-outs, so I stopped. I do occasionally put out medicine to cure their mange. When I drive home from choir rehearsals late at night, I see foxes crossing the roads. We have so many in London. My niece who lives in the middle of Lincolnshire countryside saw her first fox ever when she visited me in London.
ReplyDeletestunning photos !
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