Visitors

The snow has fallen and kept falling. The cats are going stir crazy, kept sane only by the many visitors to the bird feeder.

As well as the usual blue tits, we’re seeing a regular nuthatch pair, and perhaps saddest of all a blackbird that keeps trying and failing to hop across to the caged feeder.

Food so close, yet so far

He gets relegated, along with the London pigeons to the ground beneath the feeder but he’s not the only one lurking around.

Hunting for food under the bird feeder

Maybe a nocturnal hunt for scraps beneath the feeders explains away the success of the cats bringing home mice. It’s not as if these cats are particularly clever or even sneaky.

Spotted

And whilst the fox has nothing to fear from the cats, the blackbird is altogether more vulnerable, to both cats and fox.

Unimpressed by the snow
Nuthatch

Much safer up in the trees away from the predators.

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