The Vixen's Cubs

 The last few months have been building up to this post, and we've got some of my favourite footage of the year. Let's have a look what we got.

The first thing we got was this badger passing through on the second night.

Now, can you tell what this photo is of?

If you can't tell, watch the video and you'll find out halfway through when the vixen passes by and something is following her...

It's our first cub of the year going out on one of it's first trips away from the den with the vixen.

We got another badger on the third night:

And this deer in the morning:

The vixen came back but this time on her own :

These next shots are some of my favourite badger pictures of the year:

I'm going to quickly pause here as I tell you a short story...

It was at this point when I went to go and check on the camera trap and put some food out. I saw the baby fox on the camera and was pretty chuffed. On my way back it got even better as suddenly a little baby fox was right in front of me, staring for enough time to take some photos with my phone. I'll include these in a future post, but now I also know the general area where they must hang out. I'll explain more about this spot later...

Anyway, first to the food was a hungry badger. I can tell from the head shape that this is the same badger we got in the posts "Top Quality Badgers" and "Deer Territory". 

This next clip is one of my best yet. First the vixen appears, then a cub. However, this time a second one appeared, meaning that there is two cubs and the first ever time we have had three foxes in the same video!

The vixen goes out of sight, but the cubs stay right in the middle of the camera producing this week's footage of the week.

We didn't get much until a day later when we got the vixen in the day:

Finally, we got this badger last night:

Earlier in the post, I was saying how I saw one of the cubs in the day. I've been back today and I found a burrow which I think is probably their den. There is also a clear path from the regular spot to the area where I saw the cub which has probably been made by the vixen. I've put the camera in that area so that I hopefully can record even more of the cubs and mabye even in the day. I've got a feeling that it will either work out really well, or mabye just a bit of a boring spot. We will have to find out in the next few posts...