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John's Mammals 2021
Outstanding! I need to get out after mammals more than I have this year. 35 days to go and then all the time in the world.... Patch and Hoppity visited together last night, twice. I also heard a pair of Tawny Owls calling to each other, from my front door, for the first time ever (we've had...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
As promised, Patch and Hoppity's engagement photo. Sorry its taken so long to get to it. Hoppity can be seen to have her right front paw held up off the ground, she's been on three legs for a while just as she was when she first joined the group and got her name. Happy to tell you yesterday she...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
True, but I remember seeing a photo some years ago of a Wood Mouse that had got into the plastic column of a seed feeder and then eaten so much that it couldn't get out of the hole it went in through, which was pretty funny (and a cautionary tale perhaps!) It was released unharmed by the owner...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
My word you've been getting some good stuff lately Mark. Badger and Muntjac in one shot is showing off.... o_O Cheers John- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
I wish to announce the engagement of Patch, two year old dog fox from Big Whitey and Rip, to Hoppity, vixen of this parish but unknown antecedents. I was privileged to take the engagement photo yesterday evening when the couple turned up for a chicken leg party. Patch has been tracking Hoppity...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
A fox tale for you all. I think it sheds an interesting light, but make your own minds up.... Yesterday evening I opened the front door to find Smudge sitting with his tail curled over his paws waiting to be fed. So I trotted off to the kitchen and returned with two cooked drumsticks left in...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Outstanding. Thank you very much! Cheers John- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
It's time I gave an account of this year's mammals on Shetland. We boated on overnight 26/27 September and came off overnight 9/10 October, with no interesting mammal sightings in either direction despite calm seas. Unable to take over our accommodation till afternoon, we passed the time...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Jeez, Mark, outstanding! Is that public access or bookable somewhere? More than slightly envious.... I'm glad you have loads of local hares. They seem to have thinned out in traditional haunts locally to me although there are a few spots doing better (not the ones I'm used to using, sadly!)...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
An absolute pack of foxes present tonight with the four dogs and two vixens all around at the same time. I managed to feed everyone though each vixen got robbed at least once. Patch was much better using all four feet albeit a little tentatively and giving notice that he no longer feels...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
The foxes continue to turn up en masse every night. Patch is still hopping on three legs but can stand on four to eat, which is an improvement. Scally already seems absolutely fine after his face bite albeit even more battle-scarred than he already was with his scalloped ear. Yesterday late...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Now Scally has got the worst of a fight (well I haven't seen any such damage on any of my group in the last day or so): he's had a bite over his left eye and I'm not sure from the one photo I have whether the eye itself is damaged: certainly two canines have bitten right at the edge of the...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Quick update (Fox News? - no forget it!): Patch rocked up or rather hopped up with his girlfriend late last night and his appetite is back if not his mobility. Three drumsticks later he was content to follow her off down the street. Perhaps over the worst of it (do I mean injury or relationship...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Hadn't seen Patch for a couple of days but he turned up last night, holding up his left front leg and hopping on the other one: he must have been immobilised and just tending it for the last two days. Even last night he didn't dare come right in to the step to get fed, though I'm unsure whether...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
And a few recent pictures of my friend Patch. Yep. These are morning pictures. You can see how bothered he is by me moving about: the last sitting shot was after he preceded me on my way to the car. Even though he hardly ever gets fed in the morning Patch remains optimistic, though now he...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
My word! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Patch has progressed to the point where the other night he followed me from the door halfway up the road as I was on my way to the pub, before deciding it was more efficient to wait for me near the front door. Elsewhere I explored a new woodland near...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Farnborough fox update: this morning Patch (dominant one of last year's male cubs) was around when I headed out to the car and trotted intermittently ahead of me, allowing photos in the end and listening with interest (but not understanding) to me telling him that at 0730 it was far too late...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
A fair point, though I haven't researched the question either! John- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
It's bleaching, when the tails moult you can see the proper colour (matching the rest of the fur or darker) come through progressively down the length of the tail. "Supposedly" is right! John- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Something to be aware of: new double yellow lines on all the paved road and a gate blocking access to the parking for Edible Dormice at the edge of RAF Halton. It is still public access land so one could park legally elsewhere and walk in. If and when I and my team develop a new site we will put...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
That Badger is an absolute belter, well done! John- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Jealous of Mark's success with the bats, photos too, wow! Meanwhile back at base the six foxes continue to turn up nightly and I occasionally take photos of them. In the course of which I noticed that Terminator has no lower left canine and that pinged my memory... the long and short of it is...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Jeez I wish I'd thought of that.... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
The fox cafe has a new customer. He's an adult dog fox who seems to be familiar with the routine, comes in, sits on the lawn among the other foxes, takes the chicken thrown to him and doesn't chase the others. He fits in so well it took me a while to realise there was a fox attending that I...- Farnboro John
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John's Mammals 2021
Hopefully not, that's terrific guidance. TYVM! John- Farnboro John
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