Exploding Chestnuts
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They are great, but recently I set up a bird feeding station, in a place I can see with binoculars and they can't really approach surreptitiously.
Now Little Mouser has not brought me any birds recently so that seems ok. She is very shy anyway and I hardly even see her in the house.
But the Big Bopper, who is normally ultra lazy, came out of the house this afternoon and rushed right up to to the feeding station, scattering a whole flurry of feathered friends. So that approach did not work, so he waited around for ten minutes and walked round the back to creep through the undergrowth and approach stealthily from the other side ............. but I was absolutley in fits, it is quite dark today, and he is standing out like a beacon in a lighthouse as he is a large white fluffy mog needless to say the birds departed, all except the pheasant, and he was not going to tackle that!
I know the weather is really bad because neither have been outside for two hours , BP is on the best chair, snoring loudly and LM is sitting tight on the sofa preening herself.
Now Little Mouser has not brought me any birds recently so that seems ok. She is very shy anyway and I hardly even see her in the house.
But the Big Bopper, who is normally ultra lazy, came out of the house this afternoon and rushed right up to to the feeding station, scattering a whole flurry of feathered friends. So that approach did not work, so he waited around for ten minutes and walked round the back to creep through the undergrowth and approach stealthily from the other side ............. but I was absolutley in fits, it is quite dark today, and he is standing out like a beacon in a lighthouse as he is a large white fluffy mog needless to say the birds departed, all except the pheasant, and he was not going to tackle that!
I know the weather is really bad because neither have been outside for two hours , BP is on the best chair, snoring loudly and LM is sitting tight on the sofa preening herself.