After work yesterday I visited with a small flash light and rifle just after dark, no sight of them, again!
Suddenly the vixen let out a howling sreaming blood curdling cry not far away, made the hair(whats left of it) stand up ont' back o'neck! A dog fox was trailing her barking too all be it drowned in her screams. Never saw them! They moved off into some oaks and I could here them fighting and such in the distance.
Being off work today I made sure I was back before light today. As it got light I bumped into the third dog fox, he was carrying a tree guard! I have never seen that before, he was clearly frustrated, walking in circles and to and froing, I could not get a shot because of the dense birch twigs as I looked down on him and eventually he moved on.
I headed him off but never did see him again but I made a stand and stood it out, it soon became apparent I was not alone in that larch plantation and to my shock after fifteen minutes there they were, the vixen and her big dog. Ever likely the other dog could not get a look in he was huge!
She flirted with him right in front of me, offering herself to him and springing about with total abandenment, scooping mouth fulls of larch needls as she pranced. It was quite a spectacle!
Time for buisness, as they moved off luckily she gave me the first shot, the rising steam told me she was done before I recovered from recoil, just as I finnished working the bolt big boy came running back. He stopped behind some cover, for a tense moment I thought he would take off but he didn't, he stepped out and I had to squeeze a shot through a little three inch gap between the larch. After the second ball of steam it was done,30 and 40 yards or so, heres the snap.
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One of those special moments that make it all worth while.
Nath.