Allotment Foxes

These are some of the foxes that roam the allotments at night. You will see their foot prints in the soil on your plot or holes where they have been digging for food, worms or beetles, or burying food to collect at a later date. Sometimes i find Goose eggs when digging my plot that have been buried by foxes.

There are three different individuals hear, we have seen them all before earlier in the year.One with a damaged or missing right ear,and another with only one eye.

Brock's Back

Brock's becoming a frequent visitor to the Allotments it comes for treats i leave out for him/her,its very cautious and flees when it spots the camera.

Curiosity got the better of it and it came back later to check out the camera coming so close you can see its breath in the night air.

Wood Mouse

This is on the edge of a small woods just outside the Allotment fence. Wood mice eat seeds and nuts in summer and autumn when available which they store, and small Snails Beetles and Moth larvae in spring they live in underground tunnels.

 

There is a pair of eyes in the bushes watching this mouse just to the top left of the video.

Allotment Duck

The Allotment duck turned up in the car park today with nine ducklings this is her second lot this year.(she lost the first)She builds her nest on a shed roof but she now has to get them to Debdale reservoir about half a mile away.

she took them to the pond behind the stores but will soon leave walking through the streets with them to the reservoir.

I last saw her walking down the Allotment path with her ducklings with a Heron circling over head.