The Flying Fox

[fat man 4,741]

Seen a fox enter a smallish lake and swin across it under pressure from hounds and a couple of lurchers.They had hunted him around the side of the lake 3 times and each time he made a run for the land he was sliped on with lurchers and in the end the hounds were closing in on him fast so he took to the water with hounds and 2 lurchers on his arse,he made good his escape on the far side running the reeds and crossing a road into more cover,lake was about 100yds in width.

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Whoever took the pics were really on the ball fair play. Been out with hounds a few times when streams have been in flood, hounds in full cry and next thing charlie is on the other side of the stream, how I wish I knew as never witnessed how he or she did it. Clever eh!!

[pablo esc 1,598]

Seen a fox enter a smallish lake and swin across it under pressure from hounds and a couple of lurchers.They had hunted him around the side of the lake 3 times and each time he made a run for the land he was sliped on with lurchers and in the end the hounds were closing in on him fast so he took to the water with hounds and 2 lurchers on his arse,he made good his escape on the far side running the reeds and crossing a road into more cover,lake was about 100yds in width.

must be good foxes you have there fm, not like these pet one's going round. Maybe it's the breeding, proper wild animals, atb

[fat man 4,741]

 

Seen a fox enter a smallish lake and swin across it under pressure from hounds and a couple of lurchers.They had hunted him around the side of the lake 3 times and each time he made a run for the land he was sliped on with lurchers and in the end the hounds were closing in on him fast so he took to the water with hounds and 2 lurchers on his arse,he made good his escape on the far side running the reeds and crossing a road into more cover,lake was about 100yds in width.

must be good foxes you have there fm, not like these pet one's going round. Maybe it's the breeding, proper wild animals, atb

 

The fox as you know Pablo is a surviver and will do what it has to when under pressure.There is a lake local to me that is about 21/2 mile long and 11/2 mile in width,very good wild trout lake.A few year ago,think it was 4 year ago we had a big freeze and the lake froze over right out to 1 of the islands on it which could be nearly half a mile from the nearest shore,a local man went down to the lake 1 sunday morning just to have a look and happened to take his camera with him and he got a photo of a fox walking back towards the shore from the island on the ice,they are upportunists and will take advantage of every chance they get.

[pablo esc 1,598]

Yes it's hard to know always. I spoke with some farmers and ex shooters from the say seventies, etc, when people were travelling and shooting them for fur and the said you would think that the would not come back from it, but the population has been higher again and after that wipe out. But you know yourself from experience about digging, etc, when the young on the cards, anywhere

[smithwicks 182]

What pack in wexford was it?

[liamdelaney 2,587]

What pack in wexford was it?

Cannot remember.somebody put it up on the Net yesterday,now I cannot find it.

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

 

What pack in wexford was it?

Cannot remember.somebody put it up on the Net yesterday,now I cannot find it.

 

West Wexford Harriers https://www.(!64.56:886/WestWexfordHarriers/

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great pictures Liam, some of the best I have seen, the girl must have been buzzing catching that in real time and with a camera!

judging from the succession of pics id say its not the first time that fox has avoided capture from performing that leap at that point of the river, after all hes tredding his regular pad to make his escape and he had that leap judged near perfect.

[Dawn B 212]

Those are great!

[neil cooney 10,416]

No disrespect to whoever took those photos, as they're a great set of pics, but anyone who follows hounds regularly and KNOWS HOW to follow hounds will see that sort of thing almost daily.

It's just a case of being in a position of being able to bring a camera.

[pablo esc 1,598]

You need the paparazzi, you could be a legend then, you don't need a camera, but you would have famous foxes too, and dogs,

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Unfotunately Neil I have either been digging or lugging tools and terriers across fields so although I KNOW HOW to follow hounds I have not witnessed this event personally

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

I wonder if that is how Basil Brush got famous Pablo Boom Boom!!

[pablo esc 1,598]

Yes, a blast from the past,good sight though to see good foxes, or people who witness one's being really cute to get away, using the head, experience, be shit if you killed them all, unless you have to,