{"id":3147,"date":"2011-06-12T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2011-06-12T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:07:42","slug":"mr-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3147","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-fox-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-fox-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-fox-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Exposure: 3 seconds, f\/3.8, ISO 800<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About 9:45 p.m. this evening, I was lying on the bed reading, with Lily. Suddenly Lily, who was looking out the window, started growling. I had no idea what she saw, but the growl was kind of spooky, expressing deep hatred and familiarity. She jumped off the bed and ran downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I did when I overwired my house (there is well over a mile of electrical wiring in my house) was to put a switch beside my bed for all the outdoor floodlights. There are two floodlights on each corner of the house, giving 360-degree lighting. I quickly flicked on the floodlights. Above the day lily bank, clearly hunting for voles (an activity of which I highly approve), was Mr. Fox. I&#8217;ve known since last winter that I have a fox as a neighbor. Ken found its den about 75 yards below the house and even left food for it during the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Fox seemed to totally ignore the floodlights. I grabbed the camera. There was simply no way to get a good photo. There was too little light, especially for my telephoto lens, and the camera had to use exposures of up to 3 seconds, making blur impossible to avoid. There was no time to go get the tripod. I had to do the best I could with my elbows propped on a table near the window.<\/p>\n<p>I hope there will be other opportunities to photograph Mr. Fox. He (or she) is incredibly cute. And he can have all the voles he can eat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-fox-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-fox-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-fox-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Exposure: 1.5 seconds, f\/3.8, ISO 800<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-this-window.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/S-this-window.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-this-window\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3159\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>I took the photos out this window, but well after dark.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure: 3 seconds, f\/3.8, ISO 800 About 9:45 p.m. this evening, I was lying on the bed reading, with Lily. Suddenly Lily, who was looking out the window, started growling. I had no idea what she saw, but the growl was kind of spooky, expressing deep hatred and familiarity. She jumped off the bed and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr. Fox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}