The Snapping Bishop

“Shooooosh, be quiet, don’t move. I’ve just had two fox cubs almost wander into my living room…”

I live in deep East London, terraced houses everywhere kinda environment, and although I’m used to them wandering through the garden, to suddenly looked up from the screen and see them both looking up at me through the open French doors, one of them with his/her foot on the step made me freeze, I just stared, whilst trying to disguise the fact as you do, I feared if i looked away they’d be gone… all the time my camera and bag about six feet away … nope no good, they didn’t like the look of me… off trotting down to the back of the garden and away…

So then I sat there with the camera on my lap, even turned my iso up as the evening came in! (I don’t like the noise my camera makes at High iso)… but as I said to friends that night, “I bet they won’t come back tonight… so don’t watch this space… but I just know they’ll be back, and soon.”

Well one came back a few days later, just the one though and its been a few weeks now I still only ever spot this one …the one with the spot.

Just the one shot, thought I’d best get it up before it was way out of date.

This is shot through the windows double glazing, so its lost some clarity, although with that particular lens its hard to tell as everything’s always pin sharp anyway.

We’re gonna call him F-stop for obvious reasons hehe . .

Closer crop … Hes about a foot high to the ears…. a tiny version of mum and dad.