May Day Blossom and Orchard Fox Sightings

May Day in the orchard, blue skies and sunshine. The Worcester apple trees are in "early pink bud".

In comparison the plum blossom is already beginning to go over. You can see some of the petals are tinged with brown at the edges.

Today though I'm more excited by another fox sighting. He / she seems to be getting more used to seeing me around and today walked past me, a short distance away, at 2.30, returning from whence he had gone at 3. Once again no camera to hand, I'd put it away after taking the blossom images,  and the fox photograph is courtesy of Colin M.L. Burnett via Wikipedia Commons.

More foxy goings on in the orchard - or another fox sighting in the orchard

Another wonderful fox sighting today around 4pm this time, it was about 2pm the other day. This time the fox and I were walking toward one another. He/she stopped, waited, watching to see if I would continue, which I did. Then the fox slowly sauntered down the side of the drain, (this is the Fens), popped over the water and up the other side of the drain into the field beyond.
As is so often the case I didn't have a camera with me so the image is courtesy of  Jonnmann Wikimedia Commons

Fox in the Orchard

I know there are foxes in the orchard but I rarely see them, just the very occasional glimpse around dusk so today was a rare treat.

It was the rabbit running past me, for once oblivious to the dangers posed by us humans, that alerted me to the fox trotting through the trees. He/she was definitely on a mission known only to themselves. Not hunting just going from one place to another.

It would seem that the rabbit need not have worried, not this time anyway.

Image:Twilightvoron at en.wikipedia