The Fox on the rocks
Tom Hardiman of Craughwell in County Galway captured these images of a group of foxes in a field. He outlines how a rocky drama began unfolding as he snapped away.
"I was on my way home after being out on Saturday, September 2nd. Not so far from Moyode Wood in Craughwell (where there was cubhunting going on) I spotted all the foxes just beyond a stone wall.
"I made my way forward and I took the photos through a hole in the wall. It was a stroke of luck that I spotted so many foxes together.
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"It seems that it was a family of foxes around the rocks. It's hard to say what was going on but it looks like only one fox at a time was allowed up on the rocks [1].
"The large dog fox is seen here walking away from the rocks although he was looking back to keep an eye on what exactly was going on [2].
"It would appear that the fox on the ground is trying to convince the one on the rocks to let him up beside him. The fox on the rocks isn't interested in moving aside though [3]."
Tom Hardiman is Ireland's leading anti-foxhunting demonstrator. He regularly demonstrates against hunt cruelty outside Dáil Éireann and also carried out one-man protests in front of Loughrea Cathedral earlier this year.
The cathedral protests were to draw attention to the fact that the Galway Blazers have permission to terrorise foxes on a 70-acre farm owned by the Bishop of Clonfert.
Thanks for the photos, Tom.
