Predators

Now its  6 sleeps, still 28 hours to work until we are off to the sun.   The Lottie, parrots, dog and chickens will all be left in the very capable hands of My Girl, the Portuguese Housekeeper and Mr Milly's little sister - girl power will rule in our house whilst we are away!

This morning I was woken at about 6.00 with the dog barking and crying and making a terrible din - not the best way to way up on a Saturday morning,  but I knew that something was wrong and had quite a good idea what it would be.........  Urban Foxes!  They are everywhere,  there are a couple of farms close by to us and lots of fields and with the bi-weekly collection of refuse we are plagued by the things.

We did loose our 2 ducks to foxes at the end of last year and very recently little Flora had a very lucky escape from a fox when the chickens were free ranging in the garden very early one evening.   We did think we had lost her, but found Flora hiding in her house minus lots and lots of feathers and with a bite mark on her back.

So the foxes are a constant threat which leads us to have to limit the time the little chickens spend out of their runs.   Its a shame as I love their bok boking, and watching their fluffy knickers in the air as they scratch about for whatever they can find.

I managed to take a couple of pictures this morning of the foxes - they were sitting on the top of our neighbours shed,  taunting the dog as she could smell them and hear them, but not see them - and they have absolutely no fear.  The pics are not the greatest quality!