Last time, I had managed tro show you two of the three routes Widdel used to reach our patio aka “Sausageland”. He could do a tightrope act fifteen feet from the ground round the back of next door’s garage…….
He coulf take the path whose steps wound their way up the rockery…….
I didn’t mention though, the last route, which was to make his way across the lawn to the hedge between ourselves and the other neighbours’ garden, and then to walk in and out of the hedge, through the foliage, climbing upwards, slowly, until he reached a fence, a fence which, like the path, I had made some forty years previously when we first moved in…….
Then he could follow the fence along to his destination……..
The last picture was in spring. woth a moulted coat and fairly sparse vegetation. Here’s late summer with an early arrival of his winter coat…..
He’ll soon have reached his destinastion……
And then it’s off to see what’s happening in Sausageland…….
After that, he could do what he wanted. H could reverse his steps and make his way to “The Waiting Tree” which you can just see on the left of this photograph. There, he would wait and wait patiently until somebody came out, and ascertained what he wanted, as if we didn’t know…..
He might put his paws on somebody’s knee and then look wistful and plaintive until he was given a sausage or two…..
If he was feeling particularly fierce, he might even go down to the end of the patio for a quick game of “The Lone Wolf on Watch”………
John Knifton 
Fantastic … I enjoy fox watching. There are some large specimens in the Midlands.
I’m glad you have enjoyed my post. Foxes are a fascinating animal!
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I am pleased you took so many Widdle phots. It must have been quite precarious building that fence
Yes, it was, Derrick, but at that time, I had the sense of balance of a thirty year old!
I never get tired of Widdle. I only wish I had met him!
He was certainly a fox with charisma! On one occasion, I actually saw him, in broad daylight, sitting on a front lawn, posing for the photographs which were being taken by a little boy and girl of about eight or nine years old.
That sure was your Widdle!!
Widdle, as smart as they come!
He was certainly an intelligent individual. Talking was just about the only skill he hadn’t mastered!
Always a joyful moment to have some wild thing visit one’s yard! (The cat might not agree. LOL!) I especially enjoyed this post.
I’m glad to hear it! We had three yers of his visits and none of us will ever forget it!
Not only is he beautiful but very clever too! I’ll bet you miss him not being about.
We certainly do. He was very definitely a member of the family, and we loved him (more than most humans, I hasten to add!)
This is a joy to see! Only yesterday I discovered (via my hedgehog cam) that we have a foxy visitor.
I would try putting out some small pieces of chicken or some sausages, leaving them where the camera will show you who actually ate them, and then, if you are happy, put some out every night for Foxy Loxy!
That is a cute fox John. Not to be a killjoy but do foxes develop bad habits around humans like dingos have here in Australia or do they remain friendly and non-threatening. This guy seemed very friendly.
As far as I know, they always remain “friendly and non-threatening”. On one occasion Widdle came inside the house and sat with me as I worked on the computer. Another time, he sat and waited on our front lawn for me to return after I was returning late from work. If I sat out on the patio he would frequently join me and curl up before going to sleep at my side.
I heard of another fox in the suburbs of London who would regularly walk into the living room and then settle himself comfortably on the settee for a little TV watching.
Overall, foxes are too small to be a nuisance or to be fierce to humans.
They are bigger than a biggish cat, but not by very much. In any case I always felt that Widdle saw me as his Dad, and no fox would ever misbehave in any way towards his parents.
Beautiful photos. Thank you for sharing about Widdle.
I am proud to have known him, Lakshmi. He was a wonderful creature, and we always saw him as being a lot closer to God than 99% of human beings.
Thank you for sharing more adventures with you and Widdle!.. showing that two creatures, even though they are different, can peacefully exist in the same world.. a lesson the today’s world could learn!!.. 🙂
Hope all is well and until we meet again…
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door
May the kindness you spread
Keep returning to you
(Irish Saying)
I am so glad that you are continuing to enjoy my tales about Widdle the Fox.
To be honest, it would be a very poor human being indeed who could not have got on with a creature as wonderful as Widdle!