We get a number of visitors, looking for a nibble, and this weekend its been hectic. Another bunch of squirrels, taking turns to scrap on the window sill, whilst grabbing nuts from the bowl. It occasionally gets hairy when one of them comes into the living room window, and realises 'shit! I'm in a house!' We then get panic scrabbling letmeoutletmeoutnow sorta stuff, before she finally manages to flee the way she came in.
...and what is so nice to see, is that the local bird life have cottoned on to the bowls of nuts we put out, and have been having their own peanut picnic on the window sill.
...for some reason I have been waking at about 5 am every morning this week. Shame about the loss of snooze time, but it is compensated by the birdy chorus.
I tend to open the window to allow the birds and squirrels to reach the bowls of nuts, and the other morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a fox waiting for me under the window. She didn't seem freaked, just curious, and having a good time helping herself to the odd pile of nuts that had been overlooked by the rest of the hungry neighbours.
We haven't seen any sign of the mice since we removed the one we caught the other month. Denise took it out to the woods near here, which is probably a good thing as we would probably run out of nuts with so many nibblers visiting!
It is one of my most favourite things, experiencing the day so early on. 5 am and you get the birdy choral performance, the occasional squabble between squirrels and the odd wood pigeon, blue tit or jackdaw hoovering up any nuts on the grass out front. I don't think I could put a price on it, y'know? Our rent isn't that cheap here, but the bonus of the peace and quiet, the local wildlife, woods for walking and so on makes it less of a burden, and just a slight annoyance...well, ish :=]
so thats my Bill Oddie bit for the week done, I'd like to say....always make time to stop and smell the flowers... after all, we all get there in the end, so lets enjoy the journey :D
I tend to open the window to allow the birds and squirrels to reach the bowls of nuts, and the other morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a fox waiting for me under the window. She didn't seem freaked, just curious, and having a good time helping herself to the odd pile of nuts that had been overlooked by the rest of the hungry neighbours.
We haven't seen any sign of the mice since we removed the one we caught the other month. Denise took it out to the woods near here, which is probably a good thing as we would probably run out of nuts with so many nibblers visiting!
It is one of my most favourite things, experiencing the day so early on. 5 am and you get the birdy choral performance, the occasional squabble between squirrels and the odd wood pigeon, blue tit or jackdaw hoovering up any nuts on the grass out front. I don't think I could put a price on it, y'know? Our rent isn't that cheap here, but the bonus of the peace and quiet, the local wildlife, woods for walking and so on makes it less of a burden, and just a slight annoyance...well, ish :=]
so thats my Bill Oddie bit for the week done, I'd like to say....always make time to stop and smell the flowers... after all, we all get there in the end, so lets enjoy the journey :D
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