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Ethel Duath
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Sep 9 2020, 4:51pm
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The Fox: still poking about
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and wondering what those Hobbits are up to?
Actually, these are 3 screenshots from someone's garden in Aargau, Switzerland, from that Window-swap site (https://window-swap.com/window). It's a recorded video from someone's house--they're all supposed to be out the owner's window, but I can't imagine this one is actually taken through a window, open or otherwise. If you go there and scroll through the windows until you see "Aargau, Switzerland" in the upper right, you can see this little guy wandering around and poking his nose into weeds, and you can hear some beautiful bird calls. I think there may even be a small water snake swimming to the edge of the pond at one point.
Here's a small snippet of one of the shots, and 3 links so you can see the whole pond (plus Fox  ). This may be the luckiest homeowner in the world . . . https://www.dropbox.com/s/zfuzbsvru23zf1b/Screen%20Shot%202020-09-09%20at%2012.18.36%20PM.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/....16.25%20PM.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/....19.44%20PM.png?dl=0
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Hamfast Gamgee
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Sep 10 2020, 9:36am
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Go all the way to Switzerland just to see a Fox! I see quite a few where I live. In particular near the pub and late at night. They are fairly tame and often give me a knowing look. And my mother has a pet hedgehog. But that's another story!
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grammaboodawg
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Sep 10 2020, 2:54pm
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The arm of that bench gives it a wonderful flavor and scale. Isn't he wonderful!?! :D Thank you for this. *sigh, blood pressure lowers*
We have been there and back again.
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 10 2020, 4:22pm
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And out in the Midwest, my mother watches them waltz right across her driveway, right in the city.
Here, it's simply about the perfect setting, and his perfect poses and glances at the camera. It just looked like a scene from the Shire to me. The video even more so, for those who can get there.
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Silverlode
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Sep 10 2020, 8:53pm
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The ones here are extremely shy.
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I've seen one maybe twice in my life. It's a treat when you do.
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Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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dernwyn
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Sep 10 2020, 11:03pm
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I love that pic where he's poking his head out of the plants.
That is a fun website. Any idea how many windows are showing on it now?
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 10 2020, 11:16pm
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pretty shy, although I drove past a bright orange one at night in a neighborhood of a smaller city up north. It was walking along the street right by the curb as bold as can be, and when my head lights caught it, it stared at the car with an expression that looked like "I live here. What's your problem?"
My mother lives in a mid-sized city in the Midwest in a normal neighborhood (not at all forested, just a wooded lot or 2 nearby), but she'll sit on her driveway, and they walk and run right across the driveway just 3 or 4 yards away. It makes me nervous because of the possibility of rabies; but she finds it enchanting.
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 10 2020, 11:23pm
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Yes, he does it more than once.
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Hopefully you can find it! It's one of the longer videos and the fox is about half-way through it. I think there's upwards of 30 on it now, but the current bunch is not nearly as nice as the previous set, although there are a few holdovers. I also like the Ayrshire cows.
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dernwyn
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Sep 11 2020, 12:02am
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I had to stop myself from saying "Mooo!" 
I did find it - that is a very long loop! Looked like the fox was finding roots to eat. Did you see the window that looks right out at the Pyramids?
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N.E. Brigand
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Sep 11 2020, 12:20am
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I have seen foxes only rarely in these parts, too.
There's a sort of hidden fox in The Lord of the Rings via Tolkien's oblique reference to the song quoted in my subject line. I'm sure some folks here know what I mean.
Treachery, treachery I fear; treachery of that miserable creature.
But so it must be. Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 11 2020, 1:11am
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moo. 
I wondered what he was after. I couldn't figure it out, unless they nibble on grass like my dog does at times.
Yes! Giza! My jaw dropped and stayed there.
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Ethel Duath
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Sep 13 2020, 6:40pm
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All new window-swap windows today!
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I'll miss some of the old ones, but some of these are fabulous! And some are very "different," but that's part of the fun (the Greek one with opera and thunderstorm . . .).
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