Sunday 20 September 2015

Homage to a squirrel ??


20th September 15           morning                  mid section

thick fog again,lifted 09:40 to partly cloudy,

8-13°c,   1024 mb,  S-SW 5 mph




Came across this dead squirrel at an out of the way spot that Ian and myself cleared last winter. It's a well known area that the local birders find some interesting birds but has become completely overgrown over the years. A short track that threads its way to a patch of brambles and bushes and nowhere else! ie a dead end ( forgive the pun )  we didn't think anyone would notice or knew about. 
 I now have a problem? It's been placed by someone ( pretty sure it's a women that walked past me carrying a box a few minutes earlier ) who obviously cared for this squirrel and wanted to help it on it's way to the afterlife. So do I leave it and then spend the next few months trying not to stand on it while it gently decomposes ( there's not room to swing a cat there )? or shall I bury it? or redirect our viewing spot? 
Answers on postcard please.

Not much going on birdwise, here's the highlights of the day.


Canada Goose c40 >> NE over Valley
Mallard few S&W Canal
Moorhen 1 juv still Prefab Weir
Green Woodpecker calls Barleyfield
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 >> S over Hanging Grds
Wren 1 singing Hanging Grds
Robin 11 singing mid section
Blackcap 2♂2♀+1 calling Barleyfield
Chiffchaff 1 singing Shrike Bushes
Long Tailed Tit 2 Hanging Grds
Bullfinch 2 imm Hanging Grds




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