dog fox

Then Robin Hood's heart was proud when he looked around on his stout, brave fellows, and he said, "Brave and true are ye all, my merry men, and a right stout band of good fellows are ye, but ye cannot all go, so I will choose one from among you, and it shall be good Will Stutely, for he is as sly as e'er an old dog fox in Sherwood Forest."

I was about 10 minutes up the forest track when a dog fox soft-shoed out of the spruces, looked both ways as if he was checking for traffic and, in the course of the looking, he saw me.

I have seen foxes, buzzards, blackcaps, meadow pipits, brown hares, roe deer, a huge dog fox, a merlin and kestrels.

Foxes are often regarded as "loners" yet a dog fox will command a territory, which in the wilder landscapes may extend over several square miles, compared for instance with urban foxes which clearly operate in much smaller areas.

It looked like a young dog fox and we watched as it entered a large garden.

SHARP WIT The late Sheila Mackie with her picture Island Grumfitt RENOWNED WORK Young Dog Fox by Sheila Mackie

PAUL LEVER, in the Grange Valley, watched a dog fox and vixen and heard a blackcap in full song.

Lucian Freud told me about a feral encounter with a large dog fox after dark in a side road near his London house.

Urban foxes live in family groups, comprising a dog fox, a vixen and up to four cubs.

"We haven't had any of our lambs that have been caught by this wild dog fox ( which goes to show Katie must be doing a good job."

Zoo bosses struck back before Christmas when they hunted down the dog fox and shot it dead.

Keeping as low a profile as possible are also weasels, stoats, hares and an old dog fox.