Having Country Friends To Visit
May. 2nd, 2003 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerOne of the nice points of our current house is that it is built in what were once the grounds of a country house; our garden ends in a low fence beyond which is fifty yards of woodland and then fields between us and Brampton village. We get abundant wildlife in our garden: rabbits, squirrels and a multitude of birds, including numerous green woodpeckers.
And sometimes the wildlife is even closer. I went into our downstairs toilet earlier and noticed as I did my business that there was a pile of moss on the floor. I looked up to where we have a tiny window that I often leave open for ventilation and noticed something under the curtain pelmet...
Someone clearly thought they'd found the ideal place for a nest!
Alas, it had to go, before the occupant got as far as laying eggs. But whatever it was, it was amazing quite how much moss it had managed to wad up there.
MC
And sometimes the wildlife is even closer. I went into our downstairs toilet earlier and noticed as I did my business that there was a pile of moss on the floor. I looked up to where we have a tiny window that I often leave open for ventilation and noticed something under the curtain pelmet...
Someone clearly thought they'd found the ideal place for a nest!
Alas, it had to go, before the occupant got as far as laying eggs. But whatever it was, it was amazing quite how much moss it had managed to wad up there.
MC
