Or, possibly, straight over it:
I’ve no doubt that this little vixen would be indoors if the patio door was opened, but encouraging foxes to be that tame is not at all in their interest, so she has to watch the human world from afar.
She has discovered that she can leap over the fence and wander around the patio, but when she’s away, the mice come to play – and another visitor – a bank vole!
It’s about the same size as a wood mouse, but immediately recognisable as a vole because of its ball-like shape, small ears and short tail.
There’s a slightly larger vole species out in the fields called, not unreasonably, a field vole, but I’m yet to see one of those in the garden. For now, it’s just the bank voles and the wood mice joining the birds on the feeder.
Foxes Crossing 
A delightful vixen … she can capture a heart.
And the vole … I’ve never seen one. The closest (aside from mice) I’ve come is moles … under the slab in my garage. I was relieved to move out of there; they destroyed the garage. My kids called them “grey miners”.
actually i used to consider foxes as half pets , but the third photo gave me a complete different impression , it look like a wolf .
The other half, that isn’t “pet”, is a very BAD pet, Rania.
Nice to see the vole. Considering how widespread they are they are incredibly difficult to see. Your foxes are looking very fine. š
Nice looking fox, that third photograph is just beautiful. Cautious and curious, at the same time š
Good looking fox.
What a beautiful vixen!
Since I have bird feeders, I always have squirrels underneath foraging through the dropped seeds. This spring for the first time I saw a mouse-like creature foraging at the foot of the feeder (I couldn’t ID it given the distance). I found myself feeling much more welcoming toward the squirrels at the feeder than the mouse. Since they are both in the rodent family, what a difference a fluffy tail makes!
Have never seen or heard of a vole. It looks very plump and healthy. Not sure about the size of a wood mouse. Are they small, about two or three inches?
I’d swear that fox is posing for you. What a beauty she is.
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