Good morning from the Kronotsky Nature Reserve! Bashny.Net

Already many days trying to get new images familiar to us the foxes, but without much success. Strongly prevent violent summer thickets. Tall grass and a hindrance for the photographer and for the movement of foxes. Only manages to shoot Alice, who enjoys Thorn bear tracks, which is located at the crossroads of the cordon. It runs several times a day with mining past my windows. In the mouth it has the chicks, the squirrels, but most of the fish. Alice to fish the right way. For her good fish - a fish without a head. As soon as salmon, living or dead, falls to her teeth, Alice bite off its head, and then carries the prey to foxes. Her cubs back in late July left the brood hole and now roam between multiple temporary burrows. Of the six cubs were four of them, the fate of the missing is unknown to me. Alice is now a single mother. Kuzma has lost interest in the family is still in the middle of July, when came the first hot days and now lives alone. But let us not rebuke him for it - so the fox accepted. Freed from family concerns, he perfectly molted and began to gain weight. One feels that the cubs burden for Alice: drag them to cover production, it tends to immediately run away from them. Sometimes she takes a break from cubs in the yard cordon, where the grass is mowed and fewer mosquitoes.

2 photo Igor via Shpilenok





But careful villain has never been easy model. I have it good photos. But she was a wonderful mother! She survived eight cubs survived the devastation bear dens in early July. Now they occupy just three holes between the farthest of which more than half a kilometer. At cubs (and ALISIN and Zlodeykinyh) awakened instinct zemlekopatelstva. They broaden and deepen the hole, digging wells, spending doing this most of the time.

Problems with power foxes now there: river banks are dotted with fish flesh, and new schools of pink and chum salmon all rise up against the current. Cubs to pick their own fish, but more for games than for food.

It turns out that the person in this age fox teens fear far more than adult foxes. This observation applies to the cubs, which are often the first to raise a panic at the approach of man. Apparently, The young guides instinct of fear of man, while the part of the adult animals had time to understand that a person does not seek to preserve them and not dangerous.

It looks like the largest of Zlodeichey dissatisfied with the approach of man to his burrow



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