April continues

Although we have had a couple of very cold nights the frost has not damaged too much.  However, the' mouse in the house' season has returned with Fif'

bringing them in one at a time for Lettie.  Luckily we have been able to catch them and return them to the wild before Lettie

has a chance to get her claws into them.  We have seen our resident hedgehog trundling up the garden path at night and have a desman

 resident in the bank next to the stream.  So far he has been too quick to photograph.

First mouse

Wednesday night Thursday morning. At some unholy hour there came a thumping, scratching, rasping and jangling noise. On examination there was Lettie comfortably stretched out with an expired mouse under her right paw. As she had not been out I can only surmise that Fif’ brought it in for her. She used to do that for Willie. However, it was not difficult to retrieve the mouse from Lettie; Willie used to growl loudly and strike out if anyone else wanted his mouse! So, Lettie has now experienced two species of our local wildlife.