That's more like it ...

... just got back 01:33 hrs and foxes galore out there tonight. Two outside my house were skulking until I called them forward. A few screams from a vixen higher up told me that normality was gradually being restored. At the first check and there were five waiting - including Jackal, who had been missing for three days. He took food by hand and then ran off with a piece of chicken. In the meadow, the usual three foxes were there and a new fox was seen some way off, observing events. At the farthest point of our round, there were another pair of foxes, making thirteen ... outside my gate and the same two foxes were still there, hoping for another treat - which they got ... so the final tally was Foxes 13 Badgers 0 ... a reassuring night ...