Red Fox - about as urban as they get...

[shaunotd]

I was in St.James's Park in the centre of London, doing the tourist thing, photographing the (captive) Pelicans, when suddenly my viewfinder went totally ginger...
Zooming back, I caught this handsome chap, not three yards away, with his eye on the lakeside ducks & moorhens:

Comments

[jkatze]

Handsome indeed!

[ms_hissyfit]

That is a great picture, the colour contrasts are just brilliant. And the story with the children is funny.

[shaunotd]

Thanks! I can't take much credit for the composition though 8-)

[kryptyd]

Wow, he's beautiful! And isn't it so cool that something like foxes can live in the city?
LE RENARD!!

[shaunotd]

I always thought so. There's a railway behind my parents' house, and when I was a kid we used to see the foxes bringing their cubs out onto the opposite side of the cutting to play! Sooooooooooooooooo cute!

[cottonmanifesto]

my aunt lives near waterloo station and i saw a fox scrounging through the rubbish in an alley right near her house when i was visiting a year ago september. i was so surprised!!

[shaunotd]

Cool! I knew they'd followed the railways quite deep into the city, but didn't realise they were right in the centre until I took that picture (last May)

[durgablue]

He is a "handsome chap"!