Not really what you expect in Walthamstow!

Must have been fun :-)
Here (in the lost land between Bow and Stratford) there's a lot of
empty land, and foxes seem to like it.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, alex_t wrote:

Not really what you expect in Walthamstow!

Must have been fun :-) Here (in the lost land between Bow and Stratford)
there's a lot of empty land, and foxes seem to like it.

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places in
London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have to
live there!

tom

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On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.


I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.


there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.

On Mar 12, 10:36 am, Martyn Dawe wrote:
On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.

I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.

there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.


That's what I expect it was after at London Bridge, but there's
usually some kind of undisturbed land nearby, eg railway embankment or
abandoned garden. I am not sure where there is any such land at
London Bridge station.

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On Mar 12, 10:36 am, Martyn Dawe wrote:
On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.

I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.

there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.


That's what I expect it was after at London Bridge, but there's
usually some kind of undisturbed land nearby, eg railway embankment or
abandoned garden. I am not sure where there is any such land at
London Bridge station.



Travelling on Thameslink between Blackfriars and London Bridge one sees
an emptyish derelict-looking area to the left of the train. In the
daytime I have seen foxes on two or three occasions there, sometimes
moving, sometimes asleep. Cannot recall what this area actually is but
the trains pass it very slowly shortly before arrival.

Martyn Dawe wrote:
On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.

I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.


there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.

Simon Jenkins had a piece in Friday's Guardian on the rise of the urban
fox - apparently, because shooting is so much more efficient for fox
extermination than hunting was, countryside ain't safe for foxes any more!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2030008,00.html


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On Mar 12, 4:04 pm, Larry Lard wrote:
Martyn Dawe wrote:
On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.

I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.

there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.

Simon Jenkins had a piece in Friday's Guardian on the rise of the urban
fox - apparently, because shooting is so much more efficient for fox
extermination than hunting was, countryside ain't safe for foxes any more!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2030008,00.html


Hunting never had anything to do with extermination, did it? I
thought it was about getting your kicks from torturing animals to
death. For that, the population must not be kept down or it spoils
the fun.

Martyn Dawe typed


On 9 Mar 2007 23:59:18 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 9, 6:56 pm, "alex_t" wrote:
I just saw fox running near the rails at the Bow Church DLR station :-
D
It ran through the length of the platform, then crossed the rails and
went to the garden nearby.


I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.


there are polenty of fox's in the city , I saw one in my road eating
the remains of someone's rejected takeaway.

I am sure that this is part of the foxes' staple diet round here, where
they are prevalent and breed at the end of the garden. I have watched a
family of foxes play for an hour on my lawn, seen a fox in Gloucester
Square in Central London and met a local lady who kept a pet fox on a
lead.

Discarded take-away meals are beloved by pigeons, squirrels and foxes
and the HUGE local pigeons provide a good meal for a fox...

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Edgware.