Operation Fox Foil!

So...we have been finding lots of fox scats about the place recently and a few nights ago went out in the darkness when after hearing a scream and then we heard a fox barking continually for a while. It seems it is the fox mating season until the middle of July. Heck! we really don't need any more.While our neighbours are away we are looking after their chooks. The other day I went over and let them out to forage in the garden then came home for lunch. While we were having lunch we heard our chooks and guinea fowl causing a commotion and went out to find a fox stalking them. The fox mustn't have seen me approaching at first and I was thinking it was quite brazen to continue wandering along the edge of the bush peering at the birds. It was lucky I didn't have a gun or it would have been a 'goner'. Suddenly it spotted me and dashed off up the road and disappeared.Will and I had to go back over to our neighbours and chase their hens back into their pen while the fox was about. Then we came back home and got our hens back into safety.I set the fox trap that night and only caught a greedy possum...but caught nothing last night. We shall keep trying.