Sleeping fox enviro x 2

I am getting more fond of the environmental type of image as they make an occasional change from close up and personal portraits. I was driving to an appointment for work when I spotted a fox walking alongside a small pool at the side of a railway embankment. Unfortunately I didn't have time to stop. About two hours later I drove past the spot again and decided to pull over and take a look. Unbelievably, the fox had decided to curl up and go to sleep on the side of the embankment. I stayed there for an hour and a half and most of the images were of reeds / cover with a bit of fox but every now and then he would get up and turn around until he was comfortable and giving me a slightly different view. The second image shows him having a good look at me before going back to sleep.
EOS 30D
Sigma 500mm
exp 1/500 f5.6 iso 200

And the second.

Hi Robert

What an interesting account and images to match - thanks for sharing!

David

I like them both, but prefer the second with the eye contact and minus the background fencepost.

What a great scene to have stumbled across!!

Good stuff!
John

Hello Jeremy, I was wondering who would be the first to mention the post. I took many images that day and tried all types of format. On that particular image I cropped it deliberately to include the concrete fence-post in an attempt to show that the fox was on the railway embankment. It would have been nice to have pulled back and waited for a train to pass but then the fox would probably have been too small to identify properly. Thanks for comments.
Robert

I love these two scenes - nature at its best.

Very nice... often see Foxes from the train on my way to work, the London urbans use the tracks for paths and had ideas for a shot if I could have gotten permission.

Second one for me too, can understand trying to show that it is a railway embankment but that I think would be very difficult.

Hi Robert
Both are nice but I prefer the second.

nice one

Also prefer the second, quite an intimate shot