Things Seen

[bunn]

1) a small black cat disappearing up the lane.  I thought she had killed a baby rabbit at first, as she was clearly carrying something heavy from the way she was running.  Then she jumped up onto the bank, and I realised that what she was carrying was actually a very small black kitten.   I have not seen her before.  I wonder if she is feral?

2) dead (but not squished) on the road below Kit Hill, something that was quite definitely either a young polecat-ferret, or possibly an actual polecat.  I know that the Polecats are coming back, after having been almost extinct and reduced to a tiny relict population in West Wales -  but in theory, they are not supposed to have reached Cornwall yet.   So possibly a feral ferret?  Although the difference between a feral polecat-ferret and an actual polecat seems to be largely philosophical.

3) a huge moon.   I took rather a good photograph of it, but you will have to take this on trust, as I then accidentally deleted the photograph before I had copied it off the camera drive.  Oh well.  It's the moon, you all know what that looks like.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Neither of my current 2 have ever caught anything. They are utterly incompetent lurchers :-D

I have more or less made up my mind that if they did catch rabbits, I can cope with that, on the grounds that wild rabbits have so much nicer lives than the chickens that go into their dogfood, and I think they do need some meat. With a rabbit it would all be over pretty instantly, I hope.

But as it happens, it's never really come up because Brythen and Az are both so clueless. :-D Mollydog did catch a squirrel once, shortly after I adopted her - but it bit her on the nose! After that you could see that she would carefully keep at least a foot back, if she chased something, just in case it turned nasty :-D

[mcmurphy79.livejournal.com]

Penny ate one of john's birds - opps and also caught a rabbit with mixy which was probably a blessing, a rat and a squirrel so not an outstanding total x