Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with music, of a Kingfisher bird and a European red Fox on visit near a river on visit to the Scottish Lowlands. A colourful bird of rivers and streams, the kingfisher can be spotted sitting quietly on low-hanging branches over the water. The striking mix of its bright-blue back and metallic copper breast make the kingfisher unmistakable. You have to admire the fox. For centuries it has been hunted, shot, chased, trapped, and poisoned, but is a survivor, skilled hunter, voracious predator and a secretive beast that can outwit man’s most determined efforts to exterminate it. Foxes survive almost anywhere despite relentless persecution, and are as at home living on wild moorland as they are in woodland, farmland, coast or the urban environment. Foxes adapt their menu to food availability and are seldom short of provisions. It is, however, at least 60 years since they moved into the centre of Glasgow, and they are widespread in virtually every urban area. Foxes make themselves unpopular by littering gardens with the remains of their stolen dinners, or by undermining garden sheds and other suitable denning areas, but stories of them spreading disease are exaggerated. In children’s literature, the fox is often portrayed as a cunning rogue or a cad. And in every day parlance, the term foxy lady refers to someone who is sexy. However, a woman described, as an old vixen, is none too flattered. Despite the constant war waged on one of the most beautiful and wily creatures of all, the fox is thriving, and what is more, there is probably not a single gamekeeper in Scotland who is not secretly glad of that fact. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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