Foxy foxy..

I was out cleaning the chicken run this afternoon after work. Once I'd finished I wandered down towards the foot of the vegetable area to round up the wee blighters and down near the bottom, stumbled across a hole.

Now my 'hole' identification isn't great. Ask me to identify a tree from a thousand paces or a bird feather and I'm yer gal but holes...hmmmm. Anyway what initially struck me was the size. Far bigger than a rabbit hole - I would guess this is about a foot and a half across (though I am a fisherman...). Came back inside and googled ' wildlife hole identification' and it came up with this. Now according to that - sans the bones, we have a fox den in our garden. Which would explain a) the fox thats currently annoying the chooks b) why it can disappear so goddamn quickly when we're stood there looking at it!

The chooks are in no danger (we hope) at night or early morning as they are in a large pen with concrete flooring underneath the straw and 7ft high steel fences topped with a bird proof wire mesh. So do we leave it? Is it indeed a fox or are we looking at some kind of mutant rabbit here? I think I have found a use for the cctv camera.....

Other things that happened today: It snowed. Both fields are now ploughed. I missed probably the most ethereal light for photography this side of Neopia by about 3 minutes because I had my head stuck down a hole.