Wildlife on the doorstep of my previous workplace
Hello everyone, I hope you're all well.
I'd just like to share a story about an animal that has been making my previous workplace interesting more then it already was; that animal being a Fox. For more fun kind of story, I've decided I'll include a Badger into it as well.
When I moved to UK back in 2006, I was quite familiar with wildlife where I grew up, in Slovenia. Common wildlife isn't as diverse between the two countries as you'd expect it to be, but what I have to admit is that I've seen one certain animal up close and personal more here in the UK then in Slovenia. And yes, you've guessed it, a Fox. That said, I've only came across a Badger once in my lifetime all them years ago before arriving to UK.
Wildlife in Slovenia is more sneaky and less conspicuous then what it is the UK and thus you'll less likely spot it, especially in the urban area. I live in a suburban area of a town with around 30k population. Town itself is surrounded by fields, forests, canals, lakes, and the list goes on. Animals are more used to venture in to town and quite frankly in to our gardens.
For several years I've worked night shifts at a healthcare center in my town which was located on the outskirts and close to a forest. Sadly, that place has since been sold and is now being made in to a housing estate, whilst we've moved our workplace to a more urban environment.
At my previous workplace, wildlife was a normality to a point that you'd see a badger, a fox or any other animal on a daily/nightly basis.
What will remain a fantastic memory is that there were constant visits to our front door by a fox. That one fox was as brave as you get them and would literally sit outside until it was fed. Many times it'd stay around and just rest after having food and would even respond to us calling for it. Never have I ever seen or imagine anything like it. As to a badger, well, there were many of them, two or three at the time, and they were just a silly bunch snooping through anything and everything.
I truly hope that the wildlife in the area where my previous workplace building stood haven't been impacted by construction much. Luckily there hasn't been any deforestation of the nearby forest, so my hopes for them to continue to flourish as they did in the back then.
I'll leave you with a few photos from outside of my previous workplace that I took, and I hope that they are not too blurry or just rubbish for you to enjoy 🙂
Thank you for stopping by and take care.
What a wonderful story!
I LOVE foxes!
I've never seen a badger in real life and over here thankfully we don't see too many foxes in urban areas- in saying that tho, foxes, like so much of our wildlife are sadly run over by cars...
Plus, I don't want to see wildlife in suburbia because not as many people over here as you or your former colleagues over there would be as kind to a fox as you guys were.
I hope that the people in the housing are kind to them....
Also if the fox and other animals have to endanger themselves and come into suburbia to find food, then that usually means that humans are encroaching upon their natural homes and they can't find any food for themselves.
Obviously your fox has been around for a while and is used to humans, so I hope that he/she continues ONLY to meet kind and compassionate humans.
Thank you for being kind and in awe of her/him as all people should be with all animals.
😀
Thank you 😊
Foxes are amazing and most of all, cunning animals. They'll go through a length just to get what they want over here.
Despite people not really wanting to encourage a fox or a badger to come in to our gardens and suburban area, they do so as they know there are easy snacks to be found everywhere. Foxes are great at climbing fences, and badgers just squeeze their way through everywhere. I've had my garden and lawn dug up so many times, that eventually as I've put a security camera all I got on the footage were both a fox and a badger in the same night. They don't mix and you won't find them together at the same time, but that won't prevent them to do damage to your property in the same night 😀
After we left our old workplace, one of my colleagues kept returning there every so often in the evening to see how the animals were doin and if they were still roaming around. They were still present for some time, but sadly construction site fences were put up and domilishing has started late last year and none of us have been able to return.
I appreciate your kind words and I agree with you, we should all be kind to not only each other but to every living thing.
I bet you have a lot of interesting animals in Australia, that hopefully I'll be able to see in maybe some of your blogs.
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Little fox has such a lovely face, how fortunate to get to know her working close to forest area.
Badger is just a cute coming to scrounge a morsel to eat, wildlife in any form makes us feel more comfortable knowing they are still out there.
Thanks for sharing your encounters @vraba
We've had another larger fox that was visiting us and our neighbouring buildings prior to this, but was less co-operative when and if encountered as to compared to the younger fox in the photos.
Badger is just a naughty bundle of joy and they make such funny noises when eaating or even when they just roam around.
I agree, wildlife is a big part of a wellbeing of any human, if they admit or not, and I couldn't put it any better then what you've said @joanstewart.
You're welcome 😊
Thank you, much appreciated! 😊