{"id":15688,"date":"2026-06-27T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=15688"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:01:00","slug":"fox-cubs-in-shipley-27-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/fox-cubs-in-shipley-27-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Cubs in Shipley. 27 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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These are photos from a couple of trips down into Shipley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The header image is of three Foxes not too far from Fox Corner, Shipley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday I went into Shipley intending to visit two places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The canal next to the Otley Road bridge at Fox Corner for Sand Martins<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Potter’s Pits for butterflies and moths<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Sand Martins above the Leeds Liverpool Canal at Fox Corner – tick. This photo is on one coming out of a nest in the wall carrying a fecal sac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    On the way to Potter’s Pits I walked under a road sign and spotted a spider hanging from it, wrapping a meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Butterfly, a Ringlet, at Potter’s Pits – tick. Plus a Chiffchaff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It is now 11 years since I saw a Marbled White in Potter’s Pits. The “Stop Morrison’s killing rare Marbled White” signs are still there. Marble White and the signs feature in a visit in 2018 – Shipley Butterfly morning of 3 July 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It was hot out in the open so I didn’t stay long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Fox Cubs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    On Saturday morning I decided to go out a little earlier than usual, a lot earlier actually – before 6:00am, to avoid the heat. Down into Shipley again, this time with a little seat and my tripod so I could stay quiet and still but be ready to take photos. It worked and I was back home before 9:00am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Sand Martins, Chiffchaff, Ringlet Butterfly and Fox Cubs in Shipley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,163],"tags":[104,176,224,194],"class_list":["post-15688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul","category-potter-pits","tag-chiffchaff","tag-fox","tag-local-wildlife","tag-shipley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/R7_C6884_27.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-452","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15706,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions\/15706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}