{"id":463096,"date":"2026-03-07T19:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:29:09","slug":"fox-swims-with-ducks-and-geese-at-rspb-blacktoft-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/463096\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox swims with ducks and geese at RSPB Blacktoft Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife photographer has captured a fox swimming amongst wildfowl in East Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fox is a regular swimmer at RSPB Blacktoft Sands, where she has chosen to rear her young in a den on an island in the tidal reedbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pete Short, the reserve&#8217;s manager, said the ducks and geese were relaxed around her in the water because they know she is &#8220;not in a position to attack them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The reserve said it was the second year that the fox has chosen to rear her young on the island and wildlife photographer Brian Needham caught her dip on camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife photographer has captured a fox swimming amongst wildfowl in East Yorkshire. The fox is a regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-463096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}