MJ's little flock

[LozzyR]

They are very beautiful and the kits are completely adorable like a cross between a puppy and a kitten.
But, they smell and they make a racket.
They have a vast vocal range. Sometimes it sounds like someone is torturing a human baby and their cries carry for quite a range so you often hear them in the woods slowly getting nearer.
Last night they must have been right under my (open) bedroom window and it was not conducive to sleep.

When I lived in the UK, we would occasionally be woken by foxes in the night. A colleague said when they mated, it sounded like babies being murdered!

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

Foxes have a variety of miserable screams, if Todd's out when they start he'll tell them to shut up and it actually works.

A couple weeks ago, I was out on the deck right at sun up and had a coyote trot right up the driveway past the house and into the woods. When we first moved here permanently, they would still come up on the deck, but I've thinned their numbers and they generally give us a wide birth these days.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening MJ and everyone

 

[RoyalChick]

When I lived in the UK, we would occasionally be woken by foxes in the night. A colleague said when they mated, it sounded like babies being murdered!

Yes exactly. Tortured and then murdered.
I think when they actually kill something it is silent so the screaming bloody murder is mating or other communications.
A while back I read up on it because they really are fascinatingly vocal creatures, I need to look it up again because of course I have forgotten it all but I remember appreciating how sophisticated they are in communicating with each other (even if it does wake me up!).

 

[BY Bob]

Foxes have a variety of miserable screams, if Todd's out when they start he'll tell them to shut up and it actually works.

That's amazing. It's like Todd knows another language.

 

[RoyalChick]

That's amazing. It's like Todd knows another language.

Exactly! I think I need lessons from Todd.

 

[BY Bob]

Exactly! I think I need lessons from Todd.

Or another Todd! Even better, a recording of Todd.

 

[MaryJanet]

Janet has laid her first egg of the season

It seems she approves of the freshened up laundry basket nest, which is good because it means Ivy can continue laying in the nest box of the little coop without any squabbles over whose nest it is.

However she was far more intent on taking her well-earned snack than her egg portrait.

 

[BY Bob]

Janet has laid her first egg of the season

It seems she approves of the freshened up laundry basket nest, which is good because it means Ivy can continue laying in the nest box of the little coop without any squabbles over whose nest it is.

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However she was far more intent on taking her well-earned snack than her egg portrait.

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Oh Janet, you silly goose! oops, i mean silly chicken.

 

[MaryJanet]

Oh Janet, you silly goose! oops, i mean silly chicken.

Have you been at the water again Bob?