Fox by Jim Crumley

Author:Jim Crumley [Jim Crumley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781908643995
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2014-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

EVEN HERE, I THOUGHT, even in this place so given over to nature, so shaped and reshaped by nature, so defined and redefined by nature, so dependent on nature for its bounties and (as far as the people are concerned) for a living… even here, there is intolerance for foxes. No matter how many mice and rats the foxes will kill, no matter how much joy the presence of the foxes brings to so many people, it’s the same old damnable story.

I am very fond of Lindisfarne. It has a unique atmosphere. It is an astounding theatre of nature even at night. Especially at night. Its relationship with foxes is no worse than anywhere else, but in the eyes of a nature writer it is perhaps just a little more disappointing. Every time I hear about retribution being visited on foxes because they attack hens, I remember the words of the old Scottish naturalist David Stephen: “I never yet saw the fox that had the key to the hen house in its jaws.”

It has taken perhaps ten minutes for the sands to start filling up with birds again, although the swans did not fly, but only walked away a few yards, muttering querulous pairs of muted-brass semi-quavers in their throats. I have yet to meet the fox, no matter how hungry, that that had any appetite for a head-on confrontation with a healthy adult swan.

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