Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
An Extensive Menu
by admin - 17:37 on 08 January 2011
It's official – pine martens enjoy both corned beef and pork luncheon meat. There was not a scrap left this morning; egg, Nutella, nuts and raisins had all been scoffed too.
A passing predator or a famished Romeo might have got there first but there was no evidence to suggest that the diner was anyone but Master Marten.
My hope is that word will get around the marten community of the growing menu choices on offer outside The Rural Retreat and that more diners will partake. If mums wish to bring hungry offspring here after the new kits are born in a few months' time, I won't object.
I'd planned to take the tripod into the garden today and do some bird snappery without intervening window glass but left it too late – a bright morning turned into a dull afternoon. I'll try harder tomorrow.
In the meantime, in anticipation of another year of marten snappery, here's last year's first sight of a very young Master Marten, taken in poor light late in the evening of May 14. Only three or four months until the next generation appears – I can hardly wait.
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