Orphan fox kids

I am outraged!
Remember the day I told you about the fox I saw in the distance.
Good - they will take care of the rabbits, was my thought.

Fox sighting in early April

The last couple of day while working in my vegetable garden I heard gunshots from the south of our property.

Now I was told that someone in the neighbourhood has shot the foxes!
I hoped it was not true, because - they have puppies.
But all signs tell that something is wrong.
Yesterday while driving by we saw two of them outside a fallen down barn, in bright daylight. No protective adult around.
Hubby had to stop the car and I jumped out to have a closer look.

First they were a little shy, but then the one good a bit more curious.

They seemed hungry and curious. 

Not a good combination for survival.

What will happen to them is the question now.
They are still to young to fend for themselves.
Will they starve to death? Will they be run over by a car?
Will the neighbour go and kill them too?

Look and you will see!

This morning I tried to take a photo of a little junco.
Look at the distortion!
I thought my camera could do it through these old windows with "wavy" glass panes. Nope, it  didn't work, but I kind of like it anyway.

A junco, seen through wavy glass

Later in the afternoon Molly and I walked the neighbourhood on the prowl for more objects.
At first I had the 55 mm lens ready - and too bad.
A fox crossed a property nearby and we were too far away. Though, when I blew up the picture you can make him out, if barely.

A fox? No - that is Molly!

Where?

Aahh! THERE!

After that I changed to a lens with a 200 mm zoom. Further down the road I took aim at a crow sitting on the lawn.

 A crow watching us ...

..our approach makes her wary...

...and she takes off.  Click, click, click 

The setting was with zoom, on moving objects and multiple shots, but I didn't manage to get it really focused. :((

No good combination. With a zoom I could get "closer up to the object", but it didn't work so good with the movement. I have yet to figure out how to do 3D tracking of a moving object. 

Well, I have to practise, practise, practise.

Then we went down to the water. The sun broke through the clouds and I just loved the mirroring greys and blues on the water's surface. 

I didn't see the gull down at the water's edge. Do you?

Trying to capture the colours...

...while a gull was watching me.

When I took the next shot it took off.
Beautiful!
Thank you!

Hope you liked my little excursion as much as I did. Thank you for your company. 

And if you like, take a look at the second part of our journey in January 2006. To Tuscon and Bisbee, Guadalupe Park and Carlsbad Caverns we went....