As is probably obvious, our garden is something of a haven for local wildlife. Inevitably this can sometimes have a negative impact on the state of the garden, from holes being dug by fox cubs in spring, to new plants being trampled by their over exuberance as they find their feet. And more constantly the caching of food in flower beds. We do try our best though to protect growing areas, and my better half recently repaired a patch of lawn which had flagstones set into it. The flags were removed to make a path elsewhere.<\/p>\n
To protect the new grass she constructed a protection zone from link-stakes and garden twine. And it seems to have worked, although there had been small areas of disturbance at the edges. For several days now I've been blaming the wood pigeons (well, they do peck all over the lawn), but was struggling to explain how they might have 'broken' the string, although with the number of birds now flocking to the new feeders anything (so my theory goes) is possible.<\/p>\n
It's early evening, and the sun is beating down. My theory is about to collapse…<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Who should turn up, but the young fox.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>He doesn't look like he'd cause much trouble, does he?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>But what's this? Whoops, it snaps!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Now this looks more interesting… Maybe they won't notice :whistle: <\/span><\/p>\n