Channel Four is encouraging people to take part in an Urban Fox Census.
If you live in an urban area, it’s highly likely you have met our wildest neighbour, the Red Fox. Spot one after 4 April 2012, and we want you to report the sighting.
Help us map the urban fox population by emailing the Fox Hunt Live team the following information:
- Date spotted
- Original photograph of the fox (if you have one, don’t worry if you don’t: we still want to hear from you)
- Postcode of the fox sighting
- Describe its characteristics (e.g. cunning, shy)
- Read our T&Cs
- Then, email foxes@channel4.com for a chance to see your photographs on our interactive fox population map
If you have managed to capture a sighting on video, please be aware of the following key requirements:
- Upload your clip to a video-sharing site (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo), including the date spotted, full postcode, characteristics
- Include C4 Fox Hunt in the title and as a YouTube tag, Channel4 and foxhuntlive too
- Read our T&Cs
- Then, email foxes@channel4.com with the video link for a chance to see your photographs on our interactive fox population map and on screen
See the Fox Hunt Live: Our Mission page for more details and get latest updates on the series on Twitter.
8 Comments
Ii love foxes and leave food out for them at my Dad’s house, 37 Welbeck Avenue Hove, i know t hey get the food as i can smell them on the plastic containers put the food in. Sometimes there is a pooh by the plastic boxes and I Think this is their way of saying thank you. I did see the fox one day sleeping on a flowerbed but when he or she saw me he or she bolted. We have seen three fox cubs playing in our neighbour’s garden (33 Hollinbury road), which is quite tidy and good as a playground and think they may live in our garden (35 Hollingbury Road)which is very overgrown and wild. One day when i was on the patio and our cat was sitting on the wall, I heard a strange barking noise and looked over the edge of the patio down into the garden and there was a fox. The cat was just staring at it and was quite unperturbed.
Denis Pirie April 21st.2012
Our garden is rather uncultivated, so is the home and playground not only for foxes and our two cats but a multitude of birds, insects and squirrels. In summer we can sit out on our back patio and be entertained by nature. Although “Our” foxes roam into gardens either side of us and this fact is known by our neighbours, we have never had any complains about the foxes.Our two cats have watched the family of foxes playing with idle but unworried curiosity and the foxes, in turn, have shown no animosity towards the cats.
Couldn’t agree more. Beautiful creatures. In south london you see them all the time, sadly where I am right now in Camden sightings are fewer and further between.
Foxes are incredibly social creatures and much maligned in my view.
a vixen has been visiting us for three years and is very tame. she takes food from our hands and has allowed us to touch her. cannot believe these animals could harm anyone.
i think foxes should be allowed to live , they are very intelligent , quiet and peaceful creatures . i have six cats and a dog , one of witch is blind . 2 to 3 foxes come in our garden and we leave food for them , they are like cats , but bigger, they all eat together and they are like one big pack , all friendly and funny enough storm the blind cat is the leader , i will pull every string i can to save the foxess
and i forgot to mention i feed them from hand and they come in the house and i also pet them , they dont bite , they are a bit timmyd
I can’t believe how blind you people are, I live in the countryside and see the real side of foxes, I have chickens and regularly they go missing due to foxes. I have shot 4 foxes from my garden as the field owner had asked for them to be controlled, I am also a gamekeeper so I need to control the foxes otherwise they will eat my game birds, I know fellow keepers and a fox got into one of their pens and killed 1000 pheasants on one night and only took one to eat, these are wild animals who kill for fun, they need to be controlled BRING BACK FOX HUNTING!!!
I recently watched the highlights of Channel 4’s Urban Foxes Live programme and thought it was very good. Some of the hidden camera footage was really informative. I think with a bit of fox education like this programme provided, there is no reason we can’t live harmoniously with them in our urban areas!