So on my wish list was a decent sighting of a Cape Fox or a Bat-eared Fox. By decent I mean “close up and not running away.” We had moved over to Urikaruus from Rooiputs and had decided to do a drive up north in the afternoon. We left fairy late in the afternoon and only had enough time to go to 14th Borehole. On the way back to Urikaruus we got lucky and came across a Cape Fox lying next to it’s den close to the side of the road.
For all intents and purposes my wish had been granted…here was a Cape Fox, close to us and it didn’t run. As a matter of fact the fox pretty much put us on ignore and didn’t budge at all. Unfortunately we had to budge though as there was a small matter of gate closing time that had to be attended to. We took the Co-ords of the den so that we could check in on it the next morning and headed back to camp.
Well our luck was in the next morning but as we slowly pulled up the three foxes scattered. One ran off into the riverbed, one disappeared into the den and the third hid behind the tree
We quietly sat and waited…eventually the one behind the tree came out of hiding and other that had disappeared into the den reappeared.
They half-heartedly played with each other….
and very kindly posed for me…as if to say “we are tired, we have been playing all night long…the show is over.
Well I for one was very happy with that little show…I wanted some close-up photos of foxes and certainly got them .
