I’ve just watched a pair of ‘cabbage white’ butterflies mate on a raspberry leaf. One flattened itself out and projected its tail into the air while the other hovered above making contact a few times then flying away. The (presumably) female one then gathered herself and fluttered off over my head, greeny-white against the sky.
I brought with me today a dustbin full of compostable material. When I lifted off the cover from the compost a mouse scurried away. I do love these wildlife encounters.
There are pinky-mauve daisies in flower with a whole host of bees on them. One of my more eccentric friends worries about mobile phone radiation disturbing the flight-path of bees, he tells me that Einstein said ‘when the bees die, we die’, he obviously has little to worry about here!
Sitting in my shed for a moment, ‘Tiny’ came in to explore.
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Mum... I cannot believe you just included butterfly porn in your blog!
Anyway, I love tiny the cat! The wildlife encounters sound wonderful.
I sometimes remember my time working at the retreat and the amount of time I spent with animals... and now I am with just Richard the Rabbit living in the lounge and a Jonny lurking under the stairs! Saw an advert for a rat and accessories "free to a good home" in the petshop - am so tempted, don't worry though. I just think it is in my nature.
Also, I had a wildlife encounter today - a dead one! A seabird with a long beak - mostly skeletal - on the beach. The high tides and stormy seas seem to have washed up oceanic rejections. There was a seal carcass of sorts there too yesterday (I got too scared to look, too similar to the whale encounter. I saw it from a distance though - YUK!).
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