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FOX SPOTTED IN BROMPTON

  • 02-01-2016 01:34PM
    #1
    toffeeman99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Heading off to bed on New Years eve about 1pm, I spotted a fox wandering up Brompton Lawn in direction of Roselawn Road. First time I've heard of foxes in the area. Any one else spotted one in the area?


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  • #2
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,105 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Yes, very frequently at night.


  • #3
    miss misty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭miss misty


    Yeah plenty of them around.... coming from canal area.


  • #4
    Murt10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Murt10


    I wonder what happened to my one?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=69528617


  • #5
    septictank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭septictank


    I used to see them regular coming out of the park after midnight, heading down lanes and up in Laurel Lodge, good few hedgehogs as well.


  • #6
    Fuseman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 158 ✭✭Fuseman


    My chickens can testify to plenty of foxes in the area. In the past some of my chickens have contributed to the healthy weight of the foxes too :D


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  • #7
    wildlifeboy
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    theres plenty along the canal. they can access it on Brompton green badgers too I've heard but not seen.


  • #8
    chucknorris
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    I was out Canvassing last week in Auburn avenue. and photographed a fox that seemed to be living in the hedges between Brigid's and the motorway.

    It was heading in the direction of Phoenix avenue in Castleknock.


  • #9
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,380 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Kimmage/walkinstown seems to have a large fox population. There's a few around inchicore and thomas st too.


  • #10
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,105 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    chucknorris wrote: »
    and photographed a fox that seemed to be living in the hedges between Brigid's and the motorway.

    Very des-res! Nearby shop, train station, QBC, trendy Castleknock village. One very discerning canine!


  • #11
    chucknorris
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Very des-res! Nearby shop, train station, QBC, trendy Castleknock village. One very discerning canine!

    Apparently it will only accept the left overs of a peppered fillet of steak :D


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  • #12
    RupertsHabit
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    Have seen them more than once at the blanch center.
    Even saw one not long ago in the city center, not far from leeson st.


  • #13
    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    I've seen foxes wondering around Central London! They are actually everywhere, its because they live in burrows and emerge at night that people don't notice them.


  • #14
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Elemonator wrote: »
    I've seen foxes wondering around Central London! They are actually everywhere, its because they live in burrows and emerge at night that people don't notice them.

    I know we're getting way off the Dublin 15 track but the strangest place I saw one was in broad daylight strolling down the path beside the Radisson Blu hotel at the back of Dublin Castle.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
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    I often walk my dog after dark around Pecks Lane/Deerpark and nearly always see foxes. I love to see them :)


  • #16
    dodzy
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    See one meet its maker on the N3 outbound just before the main off-ramp at the back of the Garda station last week. I'd say the car was not unscathed either. Lovely creatures.


  • #17
    chucknorris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭chucknorris


    dodzy wrote: »
    See one meet its maker on the N3 outbound just before the main off-ramp at the back of the Garda station last week. I'd say the car was not unscathed either. Lovely creatures.

    Yea they are impressive. Too many are being hunted.


  • #18
    HPT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭HPT


    I regularly see two of them together around Delwood Lawn. They're usually heading towards the canal.


  • #19
    Murt10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Murt10


    Here's a site with the life cycle of the fox

    http://www.thefoxwebsite.net/ecology/ecologylifecycle


  • #20
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    We've a family of them beside us in Riverwood (Carpenterstown)- they'll often come out late at night when it's quietened down. We have a family of badgers as well, but I've personally never seen them. We live beside the canal, so plenty of places for them to live.


  • #21
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,197 ✭✭✭Polar101


    I also saw two foxes early one morning, this was around Clonsilla not too far from the canal. First I thought they were dogs (it was dark still), but then I noticed the tails. Seen them a few times since, a nice experience for a 'city' dweller like me.


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