Yesterday, we had a robin in the back garden, picking up a nice feed of flying ants. It came really close to us, despite the fact that Willow was just around the corner. It came back again and again, and we saw it again today. Today, Willow was just under my chair while the robin was 2 meters away, 20 cm above the ground, and I could hear Willow making that funny noise, when he is opening his mouth and snapping his teeth lightly, with a tiny little miaow sound. He generally does that when he sees something he wants to catch, be it a bird, a fly or a butterfly. So I put my book in front of him to distract him, and his little head was going back and forth so he could keep an eye on the robin, which eventually flew off. When will this robin realise that our backgarden is not a good place for a bird. Maybe it has a nest full of baby robins it has to feed, and it's worth taking the risk!
By the way, don't miss "Inside the Nest" - where you can see a mummy blue tit feeding her baby blue tits. Be quick. According to the Derek Mooney site, the baby blue tits are ready to fly and will be leaving the nest in the next few days.
And, in Airfield this afternoon (yes, the weather was good again and we took the afternoon off again...), I saw a tiny mouse jumping across the path in front of us
And then, we saw a fox - it was very scrawny-looking, but not too shy. It had a good look at us before it disappeared in the bushes.
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