Film | A Home Fit for a Fox Family | Red Fox

I’ve been building a home fit for a family of foxes. Fingers crossed I’ll be able to film cubs soon.

 

 

Filming foxes

I’ve been filming red foxes with my friend Col for years and we’ve captured some incredible moments in his town garden. To encourage the foxes to stay in his garden we built a den and this has been an amazing place for the cubs to play and rest but we’ve never had a female give birth inside.  This year I hope to entice her by making the den as comfortable a spot as possible. First I add some branches to make it look more natural and then I create a hollow in the bottom of the den and then break up the compacted soil. I think this is now fit for a fox family.

Fox dog & vixen inspect

It’s not long before we get our first visitors and when they start grooming, I take it as a sign that they’re really relaxed here. Since the renovation the cameras even caught the fox pair mating. Hopefully this means we’ll be lucky enough to watch them raise a family here in the near future.