Winter Clean Up

12/02/2008 by nigel.

So its been a little quiet in the garden.. the fox has gone, the hogs are off sleeping but still plenty of birds and of course the little wood mice..
I have taken the opportunity to clean out the hog boxes and wash down the hog feeding area along with some camera maintenance.
The Bird box is visited every now and then by a pair of Tits.. Will they choose to nest there? Lets hope..
I have placed an empty jellybean container in the hog feeding station and placed some of the nut based hog food inside it. I have made a hole in the lid just big enough for the mice to enter..
Most nights if you check the playback you can see the little fella popping in and out of the container for food..
This is giving me an idea for another cam.. Maybe a close-up mouse feeding cam..
I am looking forward to the return of the hogs and the re-habitation of the boxes.
By next autumn the builders should be finished next door and the hogs will hopefully stay for hibernation.

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