Fox/Red Fox

The Red Fox usually has a red-brown coat with a white-tipped bushy tail. It has a native range across the northern hemisphere.

The red summer coat with black backs to ears, black markings on front of legs, white throat and chest and a white-tipped tail.

The winter coat has a silvery-grey wash. This suburban fox is a regular in my garden.

Sometimes the tail tip is black and, rarely, the whole coat is black or white (in other countries it can also be honey-coloured).

In sly mode. Eyes can be yellowy-green or amber-brown. Primarily a carnivore (eating mainly rodents but also birds and even worms), it will eat fruit/vegetables.

The female Red Fox is called a vixen (this one has a ragged tail: cubs have used the tail as toy).

Three different individuals in my London garden: a dog fox in November and December and a vixen in May who, by the look of her belly, is feeding young cubs.