Foxes: friends or foes?
I am fascinated by the wildlife which has managed to make itself home in human-dominated places. Travelling to another city, whether in the UK or elsewhere in the world, I like to observe the wildlife the locals take for granted. They say one man's trash is another man's treasure and that's certainly true of urban wildlife. Tourists are fascinated by the grey squirrels in the Royal Parks, even though they're non-native and found almost everywhere here. Park Hill Park, July 2019 One creature we have a lot of in British cities is the red fox, which apparently started moving into cities from the 1930s onwards. Foxes are a divisive creature, as is common with urban wildlife. I'm not going to get into the issues around fox hunting but I do recall the protests when Parliament were debating whether to ban it. Rural foxes behave rather differently to urban foxes - they are flighty and mostly active at night. In London, the foxes strut along the pavement in broad daylight l