I know my pets and their behaviours - most of the time, I hasten to add - so I knew there must have been something interesting to see outside. Often it is a bird coming near the window. This time it was a frog.
Excuse the filthy windows. We have a lot of salty rain which makes them greasy.
If the weather hadn't been so rank, Fergus surely would have gone outside for a closer inspection of Mr or Mrs Frog.
Not so much of a visitor, but our pheasant in residence. We see him most days, strutting about and pecking some delicacies from the soil. He's a lovely looking chap and I hope he's here to stay.
When he is 'alarmed' he scutters in between the bushes and I believe that is where his home is, if they have a home, that is. I don't want to go and look as I could disturb his peace and then he might find another home.
It's such a great feeling to be able to live in a place like this, where you have wildlife visitors and residents so close to home. Amazing !
Patricia xxx...x
PS A rainbow and...
...two cats napping
A frog or a toad? If you like your garden you might not like a resident pheasant or maybe he leaves yours alone?
ReplyDeleteIt didn't move so it was hard to tell if it was one or the other. I first thought it was a toad, but it could have been a brown frog.
DeleteI do like my garden. Hopefully he will return to the piggy field once we have new pigs. That's where we had a young family of pheasants last year.xxx...x
We occasionally get a visit from a Cock Pheasant, our daily visitors are two Hen Pheasants and all manner of small birds plus there are several toads who rarely show themselves in the western end of our garden.
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