Still glides the stream ...
Bally Alley looking a lot more polished thanks to new backglasses from @cooshakvoort Loop the Loop has a new backglass made taking scans from the fragments of the original and Mad World was already in the database. The video and images do not come close to showing how good these are.
Three weeks and Gunther and Gudrun are much happier - and more shiny.
Despite the algal bloom, I managed a short video of an eft just now; just over a year since the pressoir was filled and it's teeming.
Gunther can smell a carrot at twenty paces. When it comes to meadow hay, though... They must have heard me kilomètres away.
It's no longer, "who are you?"; now it's "do you have a carrot perchance?"
Politics. So important. Yadda yadda. Does sweet FA for our planet.
While the owls are hunting and their offspring call to be fed, here's a couple of moths. One for each person seeing my posts.
What happened next was another carrot.
First steps in their new garden after a quiet night in. I thought I'd need a third strand in the fence - Gudrun proved me correct an hour later...
Another busy night for the barn owl parents, their offspring constantly requesting more rodents.
2 of the barn owl discuss the nutritional requirements of their offspring; now you know why there's a hole in the roof and abandoned scaffolding; hopefully they'll move out in time for repairs before the rainy season...
Apart from the removal of the tonnes of mistletoe, pruning of the apple trees that's prolonged the lives of some (although most were of an age that was, for an apple tree, quite enviable given the lack of care they'd received and the extent of infestation) and some new planting, the orchards have been allowed to bulk up grass and natural species by natural seeding and biodiversity has definitely benefitted. Now it's time to introduce a pair of goats that I've adopted as their custodian has to suddenly part with them; one thing that makes balanced rewilding difficult, in my opinion, is the proliferation of brambles - and although there's been a fantastic increase in moth species that feed on brambles, the brambles would eventually swamp everything. I've cleared a two metre path where I need to put an electric fence that will keep them safe and their new house is ready with the manger filled and fresh, deep straw bedding. Once they're settled in I'll open up more of Orchard One for them and they'll soon be greeting guests in Orchard Two.
