Jungle visitor

Just spent a pleasant ½ hour cleaning the gas cooker hob and w*rktops,
:( when I noticed Fudge on the outside window ledge with his eyes
transfixed on something. I moved to stand behind him and looked in the same
direction. There on the 8 foot high tree stump (my improvised clothes
post) about 8 feet from the house was a little visitor. I rushed upstairs
got the camera and took two photos through my bedroom window. Didn't dare
try to open the window, so the quality isn't that good 'cos it's taken
through the glass window.

Splodge...

I think they're brilliant photos FN.
Well done
Splodge

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Thanks Splodge.
After all this adulation I think I'd better go and check if there is any
glass in my bedroom window. :)

As I watched, he finished eating went slowly head first down the tree stump
then sort of hopped 20 feet further away then dashed up into my 30 foot
conifer by the ponds. Fudge just didn't know what to make of it. All
happened about 15 minutes ago.

Pam the goose...

How delightful!
And how good of Fudge not to interfere - they seem to know it's OK somehow,
don't they?
Oh, there's nothing wrong with the quality so your windows must be clean:)))

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Those back windows are the original ones. House built in 1934 - they don't
make glass like that any more. :)

Pam the goose...

I think those pre-war houses were made of really good stuff all round.
It was before the builders started to cut down wherever they could. I know
what you mean about the glass. you're right!

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

For one thing the timber was well seasoned in those days, so you tended not
to get as much warping as happens to modern wood.

Pam the goose...

But that was just one of many things about them, wasn't it?
The poorest quality bricks then were as good as the best quality now.
Stone was used for walls, flags for paths, all far superior to the quality
today and at a fraction of the price!

Yes, just pre-war is a good time for houses:)

shaz...

Brilliant pictures. i can never get close enough to ours.

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Well I'd set the full digital zoom (X4) and optical zoom (X3) that's why it
looks like I'm close to him.

home...

My Sister in Banbury has two that come every day for nuts and live in a
couple of trees at
the top of her garden;-))))

Foxy at w*rk...

I like sqwiggles I know they are a nuisance but I like them. We have quite a
few in out back garden

Jackie...

Is it a red squiggle? though it seems to have a grey tail?? Red ones are

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

He had a tinge of red about him, but he is definitely a grey one. Maybe a
tad young, they often have bits of red on them. I last saw a red squirrel
in Sheffield in 1979/80 winter. i was surprised at that.

more rare!

home...

They are lovely piccs FN !!I bet Fudge wondered what on earth it was !! he
doesen't seem to be
bothered though ;-))))

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Well I think Squidgel is pretty local so he's probably been seen by Fudge
before. I've seen him in my jungle on a couple of other occasions. On
one of those, he seemed to be inspecting the cat kennels, but too close
to the house for him I would think. If he had tried to take up residence I
think something would have been said. A visiting moggie went into Fudge's
summer kennel a couple of weeks ago and got very short shrift. I reckon if
I could have understood Fudgespeak the air would have been blue. LOL