The cat in my garden moved three times in five minutes in search of the ideal piece of shade to sleep in. I think the requirements are to have the head in shade, so that the sun doesn't glow through closed eyelids, and the body basking in the warmth of full sun, but as I'm not a cat I can never know for certain. The sun went behind a cloud as soon ( Read more... )

Hee. I'd not actually seen this article until today. It's highly amusing though, and I thank the foresight of the squirrel rescuer who had a camera to hand.

Fat squirrel trapped behind barsFortunately I've never had one of that type of feeder for my little critters, though I definitely need to replace the sunflower feeder soon. Between the ( Read more... )

I have today off. I was busy doing a few chores in the kitchen this morning, but the washing up kept getting interrupted by dashes for the camera. All wildlife was there, performing for my entertainment ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I ever mentioned that a month or two back I had a bird feeder vanish from my garden. It was a long wire tube, with a metal lid and a hanging chain, filled with three nice new fat balls made of suet and seed for the birds (and, yes, the squirrels). And the day after I filled it I looked out of the window and there was nothing ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning I got up and looked out into the back garden and found that somebody had been turning it into a junkyard. I found two no longer serviceable cricket-sized balls, one pair of plastic protective glasses of the sort used for DIY, and an empty cigarette lighter ( Read more... )