Fox on our anniversary

For our anniversary, I had my Pixel 2 phone in my shirt pocket.  After dinner around 2030, we saw fox running the reverse route, coming around the house, in front of the patio, and heading into the garden.  At that point my phone was ready and about 15 seconds later they came out by the back fence, and then exited via the gate.  A second fox (or the same one repeating the circuit) came back about 20 minutes later, when it was too dark even for the Pixel 2.  This sequence covers 3 seconds.

The stage for the foxes

1. 

This is a USGS air photo of our yard, from the spring of 2014, with 3 inch pixels.  I don't use Google Earth for this, because:

• If we can use MICRODEM, so much the better.
• The current Google Earth imagery has the trees in full bloom, so you cannot see the yard.

The route of the fox:

• A, enter the yard behind the shed.
• B, amble along the back fence, inside the yard.  If I see them here, I can arm the cameras.
• C, emerge from the raspberries, with the choice of returning toward the back fence, or going around either side of the house.  Heading left around the house has been the favorite route, but not the last time.

My lairs:

• D, a window in the sunroom allows our old phone to take pictures with the timer (think every few seconds for several hours)
• E, the deck allows manual photography with a camera selected from my arsenal.

The photos in the last post were taken from Point E, with a Pixel 2, as the fox went from Point C back towards A,