Eggs for breakfast as soon as mum gets back

An amateur wildlife photographer has managed to capture images of the vixen swimming backwards and forwards from an island, gently cradling the eggs of a Canada goose in her mouth.



The photographs show the extraordinary lengths a mother will go to to feed her young.



Unable to carry more than one egg at a time, the vixen undertook the 80-yard return trip from the bank to the island four times until the nest was empty.



After each raid the eggs, which had been retrieved unbroken, were fed to her cubs waiting in their den.

On the final trip, the fox retrieved a fifth egg that she had hidden on the island, then ate it herself.

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