Stuff

Yesterday I went to a walk in the nearby nature reserve, to observe spring nature. The reserve is in town, so it's quite popular, and there were lots of other people, most of them with dogs. But they mostly walked this wide path that goes around the area, the smaller path up the hill was pretty deserted, I think I saw only two people there. And because there was quiet, also forest animals were hopping around there. So I almost bumped into a fox.

When I first saw it, it was standing and looked very much like a dead, stuffed animal. Poor fox's tail didn't look very good (not anything like dear Casko's big fluffy tail ;_; ), so I was wondering if it had mange or some other disease. Or maybe it was still changing its winter coat into summer coat.

I managed to take out my phone very quiet, but I was too slow, so I didn't get a silhouette close-up. It was moving so fast that only two pics even have it in. And they are very bad pics, fast shots with phone camera. But at least I have proof that I saw it. I've seen foxes before, but mostly far away walking on ice at dusk or at night. Never so close and in the daytime.

Here's the two bad pics. I hope you see the fox in them.




I saw (and heard) there also lots of birds and squirrels. The reserve is well known herb-rich forest area with dozens of bird species, especially songbirds. But I'm not an expert of them, so I don't tell anything about them. I didn't hear nightingales, which was a bit odd, but fortunately I've heard them elsewhere this year.

There was also a big population of our bloodthirsty animal friends (aka mosquitos). One reason why I didn't want to spend there hours. Well, at least we can say that summer has come, when vampires mosquitos try to suck our blood.