Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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Under Attack
by Russell Turner - 15:05 on 11 June 2017
It’s fledgling time in The Rural Retreat’s garden, which can be an unhappy period for a household with three cats, especially when one of them is as athletic and instinctive as Willow. However much we chastise her, The Grey Streak brings home a wide variety of birds (usually dead), small mammals (50/50) and reptiles (always alive).
Several days may pass without any outdoor assassinations (that we know of) then Willow will get a rush of blood to the head. A young coal tit and a young blue tit were the unlucky victims this morning, and there’s still plenty of daylight left.
Even Maia, the laziest and least bloodthirsty of The Pride, has been getting in on the act. Yesterday, for the first time in many months, she brought home a chunky (and deceased) vole. Maybe the beast died of old age and Maia stumbled across the corpse.
Willow lurks in the grass near a bird feeder.
A young woodpecker keeps out of the way.
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