Hi Nic
Usually it’s just a tick in the box but last time it went completely potty with blurred images of goodness knows what.
It’s so weird the assorted animals appear & disappear, like your cat & mouse visitors. No hog is eating the food I’m leaving out & today Chino (a neighbouring cat) helped herself to the dish & ate it all. She’s small so able to get herself into the entrance of the food shelter enough to drag it out. Fresh stuff out for tonight & clean water just in case, such a relief to find the water staying liquid in freezing conditions if it’s in the shelter as that always worries me.
Pity both your hoglets aren’t going in the boxes, would be easier for you as well as them. Lots of leaves around my garden, leaving them where they are in the hope they’ll be carted off to wherever any hog might be making a winter home nearby.
Today has seen the bird feeder refilled about 5 times, starlings in double numbers & also sparrows each time I looked out, they soon finished it off. A crafty young magpie has found it can get it’s head through the plastic rigid clematis netting I put over the entrance to the feeder if it hangs on the outside & help itself to beaks full of suet pellets. My pair of collared doves land before I’ve finished putting some on the fence post for them, so pretty & so keen. Blue tits in the trees joining the robins & blackbirds singing to mark their territories, nature at its best.
Winter is arriving in a hurry I think.
