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Midnight was waiting as usual on the swing for his breakfast yesterday (Thursday) morning. The usual loving from him. And he ate his favourite bits from the cat diner. Then settled on the cooler end of the swing for a sleep.
Then I returned to my bed with a coffee and a tea...
I got to drink them hot as there was very little activity in the garden. This is a little too quiet for early morning for me. I was out most of the day before, and went to bed when I got home. The traffic gridlock was already beginning Wednesday afternoon (we are the entrance to Wales from England here), and with the heat, that had finished me off completely by the time I got home.
So, I don't know whatever activity happened in my garden during the day.
No sign of Little Miss (teenage sparrow), but she had been spending more time with the Bluetits.
So, Mr Blackbird was next, in the absence of Little Miss. He got on the chair a couple of feet in front Midnight (who is on the swing), and is squawking absolutely furiously at him. One foul temper Mr Blackbird has. Midnight has never done anything to Mr Blackbird, so why all this absolute aggression from Mr Blackbird. I have have never seen a blackbird so close to a cat before and not end up a pile of feathers on the ground...
Still no sign of Little Miss by 8:45 am.
One of the Merlins (ginger cats) has fed.
And I am anxiously awaiting to see sight of Little Miss...
Second Merlin has now fed also.
It has the promise of a hot day, and the cats and birds do go to ground for the day when it is hot, and often don't emerge until the coolness of evening.
Midday, and in comes sweeping Mr&Mrs Bluetit and their three cheerful boisterous babies, to feed. They were great to watch. But where is Little Miss, (teenage sparrow, acting as an extra mum/au pair to those baby bluetits)? I am waiting for her. Then suddenly, in she flew. Now I am happy, my mind is at rest. Little Miss has put a smile on my face...she brightens up my day. So, yesterday at least, Little Miss has abandoned keeping Mr Blackbird out of this garden. Her energies are more usefully expended elsewhere, in helping keeping those baby bluetits safe. They all spent the day between the bushy leaves and the fat ball feeders. Those baby bluetits are growing up very fast. Little Miss left the garden at supper time when the Bluetit family left...
But before that, Mr Blackbird was loitering in the long grass making his presence and whereabouts very apparent. Then there were some skirmishes, and blackbird wings flapping above the long grass but I am unable to see what is going on, except Mr Blackbird does fly out of the grass in one piece.
I initially panicked and check the number of bluetits, check Little Miss, and check Midnight, but they are all are present and correct.
Then I realised, this is where the mouse nest is. I Google 'Do blackbirds catch mice?' A baby mouse wouldn't be beyond a blackbird's skill repertoire, would it? And it turns out apparently blackbirds can catch mice. But they can catch frogs as well. It wasn't a snail or a slug because this was a bit of a longer battle with flapping wings.
Creative today is my Acer leaves in a kaleidoscope with Laboscope. Silhouettes are Midnight and Shadow.
Time for a cuppa.
Oh, and by the way, the bin men did come yesterday morning (Thursday) for the bags of recycle and the general waste wheelie. And I got a shock. The road was absolutely spotless. The road and pavement normally looks like a general waste tip after the bin men have been. I suppose they had been told to clear up after themselves because of the Jubilee celebrations yesterday.
Why can't it be like this every week? Many years ago, they did clear the rubbish they dropped from the items they emptied.
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