Reading the signs
Chris Packham sets our at the best time of year to find traces and clues of what red foxes have been up to. Flattened patches of grass are a sign of where one of Britain's most beautiful animals have been active - they've been lying or the cubs have been playing. You can tell if feathers have been chewed by a mammal because they've had the tips gnawed off. If they'd been plucked by a bird of prey the quill would have been pulled out whole. Chris also finds an unlucky rabbit's foot! There is a clear path made by the foxes leading into the bushes. All the signs point to the presence of a family of foxes, and when the sun comes out, sure enough out come a vixen and her young cubs to sunbathe in the field.
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