Today I took a short stroll through the Rietputten near Vlaardingen to see if there were any typical Dutch winter birds around. 
Seemingly there was quite some work done in the area and a new pond was created. Not a good thing as normally this disturbs the wildlife considerably. 

The weather was nice though so I took a walk alongside the "Volksbos". This piece of forest was planted in 1992 as a protest against the plans to make a garbage dump at that location. 8000 people planted 17.000 trees in that area. Now it's a nice place to walk through with normally quite some interesting bird-life to be found.

While I was walking there, I spotted a fox which was walking in one of the nearby fields. But of course, as soon as he saw me, he fled away in into the forest. Spotting a fox outside the "Amsterdamse Waterleiding Duinen" is always nice, because they are quite elusive and try to avoid contact with humans wherever possible.

I took a walk through the forest and in the meantime he must have returned to the fields again, because I spotted him again when I left the treeline. Same story unfolded, fox fled and I was happy with the sighting. 

But to my surprise, I saw him a few minutes later AGAIN, this time he was running towards me over one of the paths through the reed-lands. He was still about 300 meters away and I had time to lay down in a patch of reed, with just the camera in front of my face. 

Luckily he didn't spot me until he completely filled the frame, only then he turned and fled away through the nearby field. A small dream came through as I still wanted an image of a fox running towards me. Did I get lucky, with a clear background to top it off!