Bill
29 overnight! we're having a heatwave too as it's forecast to hit 6 degrees
at 2 in the morning. I only know a little about urban foxes, but am an
urban animal myself too. I suspect that the ones we see by the flats are a
succession of young inexperience males recently turfed out by mama: two
years ago on Christmas Day I came across one as road-kill (outside a former
arts cinema!) and could see it was male while another time I even saw one
sleeping, curled up, in the open, on the grassy verge of a nearby
recreation ground (next to the prison actually - these foxes choose their
spots) and a third time one came right up to the entrance door of the
flats, sniffed, then turned away as if overcome by snobbery. Though perhaps
it didn't have an entry fob. I doubt if any of these (including becoming
road-kill) is the mark of a practised Reynard.
best
Dave
On 16 January 2014 11:30, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks Dave for the clarification. Foxes we get here occasionally but none
> I know would claim them or know their habits as well as you appear to.
> Dusk's throats driving us crazy tonight. 44 done, minimum 29 overnight and
> dogs barking echoing up and down the valley. Foxes are at least quiet
> killers.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
> On 16/01/2014, at 10:15 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > Ta Bill. Here the weather has been not quite zero in the daytime and the
> > coasts have been reminded of being an island in northern winter. We went
> by
> > train one day to Nottingham last week and the Soar in its lower reaches
> was
> > waterlogging the grazing fields of north west Leicestershire while even
> old
> > Grand-Father Trent had been disturbed and some of the lakes at
> Attenborough
> > had overflowed their banks. The fox was a problem: I changed the 'our' to
> > 'the' back and forth several times. I also had 'foxes' and both 'vixen'
> and
> > 'vixens' as well as 'scatter/s' for 'hide/s'. a little explanation part
> > one: although I live on the edge of a city centre in a tower block
> between
> > two arterial roads 'we' do have 'our' resident fox. or rather the
> > impression of 'one'. Said fox might be a succession of ones, particularly
> > if male, but possibly less so if female. Vixens do retain their territory
> > while males are ejected upon adulthood. It is estimated, I understand,
> that
> > about one third of Britain's fox population dies each winter, with
> > mortality at it's highest among the young males. Explanation part two - I
> > was using externals to write about interiors - I am a kind of
> philosophical
> > materialist who also likes Bishop Berkeley and more. Thanks again for
> your
> > kind words - the question of ownership did trouble me, but it was one of
> an
> > image only :)
> >
> >
> > best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 15 January 2014 19:40, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like a bit of hush to the weather in my pillow thanks, David. 44
> >> dagger degrees expected today here in Melbourne after previous days of
> 43
> >> and 42. The wind is saving its argument until tomorrow apparently when
> full
> >> throated fire risks gape. I love Primitive. One query about the sense of
> >> ownersip of foxes.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >>> On 16 Jan 2014, at 3:53 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I like the 'as if' of it all, David...
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>>> On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:37 AM, David Bircumshaw <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Haven't done one of these for a while, so here's a little exercise:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> * Primitive*
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> All night the rain has argued with the wind.
> >>>>
> >>>> A balloon turns at its mooring, as if adrift
> >>>>
> >>>> In the hushed pillowed weather of my head.
> >>>>
> >>>> Our foxes hide as the dawn’s throats wake.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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> >>>
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> >
> > --
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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