Foxes of Amsterdam

8th February was the start of the planned tours of 2018. Jetting off from Doncaster Airport it was a short hop to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport!  As arranged, I was meet by my guide for the weekend. Bart Hoffman. From the airport we headed off to the fox location for an afternoon session.  This involved us in a 7 mile round walk.  So including the trudge in airports. I covered around 8 miles!  Unfortunately it appeared we missed the foxes by some 10 minutes!! Had my flight been on time?? So time to check into the Hotel Faber, find a restaurant. Followed by an early night!

 Friday 9th February Bart collected me from my hotel. Along with two other photographers, we headed off to search for the foxes.  Again a long walk is to be endured to reach the area favoured by them. Weather was kind to us.  As we neared the site I turned around and was delighted to see a female fox following close behind. She was sporting a beautiful winter coat.  Bart was extremely excited at this sighting, as it is a fox he had not seen for many months.  A little later we were joined by another sub adult female. "Limpy" named by Bart, as she had obviously injured her foot or leg and walked with a limp.We were favoured with their company for several hours and enjoyed some interesting photography.

Saturday 10th. We were picked up a little earlier from the hotel.  Aagin the walk was to be endured. This time under grey skies and we where duanted by the prospect of rain.  Fortunately the sky cleared to blue and the sun appeared.However the foxes were not that enthusiastic to join us.  However we waited for several hours and they appeared for the rest of the afternoon.

So Sunday the 11th. A easy start to the day. Breakfast packing and a train journey to the Aiirport for the short flight home

Despite walking the equivilent of a marathon over the weekend it was a most rewarding and enjoyable short trip!