Familiar faces on show

Though I do not keep nightly written records,  I am aware if one of named foxes goes missing for a number  of nights.  Familiar faces on show early hours Wednesday included One Eye (two nights in a row) and  Becbla (blind vixen) who managed to snatch a chicken thigh thrown to her and escape without being spotted by the three other foxes nearby.
Farther down the combe,  Limper (had an infection in his front paw - gradually improving) approached and was followed closely by two unnamed vixens.
Dear Croucher (knows he will get noticed by lying down with front paws folded and head on the ground - a sign of trust in the animal kingdom) was in his usual place and was duly rewarded.
Nearing the end of our Night Patrol,  a relatively new fox was waiting for us in the same place I had seen him a fortnight or so ago.  I threw a scrap of chicken but both So Cruise and I had to retreat a fair way for the animal to advance and retrieve the morsel.
As has been the case since before Christmas,  no badgers were abroad in the combe.