The freeze still bites and every morning the ice on the pond where Old Ma Goose has her dip, has to be broken and much of the ice removed for her to have a bathe.
One of us has to stand around while she does so because of the presence of a fox. It has been visiting up here very regularly because of the frozen ground. Mind you it would not have ventured up to us from out of the valley, but was driven by the shooting going on down in there as they hunt out the Pheasants living in the woodland. The Fox not being stupid, comes higher up to the top of the valley out of harms way, but ends up hunting around us and along the periphery of the wood.
Others also hang around the garden out of harms way. This pigeon is a regular visitor.
Gentle birds that have to keep out of the way while the guns are about, this Pigeon comes around every day. Strangely enough we have never had trouble with them eating our Winter greens.
This chap hangs around the garden out of harms way, walking around quite majestically, then slips away for a while through the hedge and into the field.
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