I have watched unsuccessfully for the female fox, she has not turned up to feed, which makes me certain this is because she has now given birth to her cubs. This view is reinforced by the fact that the male instead of eating as usual is carrying all the food away, mouthful by mouthful, last evening he spent almost an hour and a half doing this. He is obviously taking it to the vixen who will not leave her cubs for the first two weeks of their lives.
The dog fox has shown such devotion to the vixen, he does not even eat himself, just appears to take all of the food to her. When the food is being prepared, he is already there on the lawn waiting for it to be brought out, as soon as it is he wastes no time in gathering it up and hurrying off with it.
It is another cold day today, the male pheasant, continues to come calling for his food two or three times a day and if there is none in situ, then he comes to the lounge patio doors and standing on the sill, pecks the window to let me know he is there. As soon as I stand up he is off and always reaches the kitchen window before I do!
He is not always so lucky these days though, as he has taken to sometimes waiting by the end conservatory door and pecking that, so of course I am not always aware of him.
Watched a charm of goldfinches in the birch tree this morning, they were still there when I went back over an hour later.
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