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Nature? Why You Pad With My Head?!

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  • 20-07-2019 4:44am
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    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭


    Copied and pasted from elsewhere:


    I typed the following, onto Notepad, at 06:40, this morning. While it was still reverberating in my mind.

    " Good god!

    Okay. Real time here. I've just seen the most astonishing thing.

    Five minutes ago, as I type, I headed out the back door. I guess I'm now habituated to focusing on the nut feeder, fifteen foot, directly, from the door.

    I, sort of, automatically ask myself what birds are on it, as I look through the glass,

    Just now? Dunno. Something, just beyond my ~ ageing eyes ~ focus sparked something in my brain. There was something about the nut feeder.

    Opened the door? All hell let loose! Something unwrapped itself from the feeder. It then, clearly, made the fence ~ close behind ~ and shot off to my left.

    Okay. Dog's just distracted me. I've lost my train of thought. I'm already asking myself:

    " Was that a rat? Could it definitely Not have been the pine marten? "

    Dunno. Initial impression / jiz had given me rat.

    What ever. What's Absolutely clear is that at least one, maybe more, Birds came off them nuts too!!! "

    See what I'm saying, people? Which ever it was; It was commensal with the padding birds!!!

    This is some spooky padding fecal, at my stage in the game! Pheasants ready to share with foxes. I've watched a collared dove shoo an adult rat off the feed.

    Come to that? Only yesterday, I saw an adult rat feeding. Surrounded by chaffinches, feeding on the same, 18" x 10" spread of seed. Not one pad was given!

    But; A padding rat, wrapping itself round my nut basket ~ as great tits and siskins hang within inches, eating the same nuts?!

    Seriously; I really do think that the older we get, the more we see? The more we realise how little we really know!

    Pad knows.


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