Red Fox Vixen head on portrait

Red fox vixen, Sheffield, UK. When I first arrived back in the UK a vixen and her cubs were visiting our garden almost every evening. Typically the cubs would arrive just as the light was getting a little too low, but the vixen always came first to check the coast was clear. By shooting from inside the house through the open door I was able to stay concealed enough that she would come very close for some frame filling portraits.

Red Fox Vixen  : About Foxes

Foxes are found across the globe, making them one of the most widespread species in the world. They are found in a range of very diverse habitats from rural areas such as forests, grasslands and mountains, to urban cities and even deserts!  This incredible adaptability has earned the red fox a reputation as a cunning and intelligent survivor. Red foxes are typically solitary hunters/scavengers whose success is largely down to their varied diet, consuming everything from small mammals and birds, to fruit and vegetables, reptiles, amphibians. Urban foxes are also particularly well known for opportunistically scavenging human food waste and pet food. 

You can find more about foxes here