On my last Saturday in Bad Mergentheim, Hubby visited me and we took a tour through the wild animal park near the town. It was a nice trip, beautiful weather and lots of interesting animals, but look for yourself:

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So I bought a plastic raven yesterday and set it on the windowsill of the loft window, close to the roof beam that the pigeons like so much. Let's see if it works and scares them away. For starters, I wasn't woken up this morning by cooing... (Instead, I was woken up by the humming of a giant wasp that was trying to get out through the closed ( Read more... )

Although they're very shy of water, cats are natural born swimmers as proven by Hubby yesterday ( Read more... )

loupnoir asked for some pictures about the birdies, so I took a few over the weekend.

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Sometimes I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but if left alone with a problem, my brain will present a solution to me eventually. Like today ( Read more... )

There was a hare (Or rabbit? We tend more to hare...) hopping around just outside our office. So cute!
( It did even wait for me to grab my cell phone and take a picture ... )

On my way to work one day last week, I saw a hare. It hoped on the street, saw me coming and bolted back in the woods ( Read more... )

I don't like spiders at all. Actually, I hate them so much, I'm afraid to touch them, and I usually call Hubby to remove them when I encounter one in our apartment ( Read more... )

Went hiking again at the weekend. At some point, about half way through the woods, we heard a rustling in the bushes beside the trail. I could spot a black and white tail in the undergrowth that clearly belonged to some fleeing roe-deer ( Read more... )

loupnoir wrote about hummingbirds in her garden. This reminded me of an unusual sighting a few days ago. There are no hummingbirds in Germany, but we saw something on our balcony that could hover in the air, fly forward and backward, and used a long proboscis to feed from flowers, much like a hummingbird ( Read more... )