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Relief For Siskins
by Russell Turner - 16:33 on 20 June 2017
The Grey Destroyer’s blood lust abated a little today. It was 10am before Willow brought home a mangled siskin, and that’s been the only one (fingers crossed). Maybe the increase in temperature is responsible – there’s been much feline lazing and no demand for a long walk.
The sad little corpse (currently on a shelf out of reach of grey paws) will later tonight be incorporated into the circle of life by being left out for visiting pine martens, as were yesterday’s three victims and the three the day before that.
That’s the plan, anyway. Yesterday evening, after leaving the bodies at the foot of the Nutella Tree, I looked back a short while later to see Pandora scoffing busily and only one corpse left. I moved it to the gate, which our tabby never climbs, but reckoned without one of the resident crows who also snaffled half the Nutella.
How many corpses were previously carried off by corvids, or munched by moggies, is unknown. Caring for wildlife is a tricky business.
I’ve no recent siskin snaps so here’s one from a few years ago. There are still plenty around, despite predating pussycats – yesterday I watched a flock of around a dozen on and under the feeders.
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