Something's Been Sleeping in My Bed ......

In the distance a familiar face is lurking in the Veggie Patch, can you see him ...

 



 

.... Mr Hawkeyes, is back. 

 

He used to guard the chickens at our old place, keeping away some of the large flocks of rooks we used to get stealing their food.  He's been languishing all neglected by the raised beds since we got here, we've never had the same scale of bird problem.   Yesterday I decided I needed his help ...

 

 

..... because something's been sleeping in my bed .... my Strawberry Bed that is.

 

For everything to be that squished and flattened out to that extent it just has to be one of the small deer we have roaming round here.  We've seen them leap all our fences with the greatest of ease.  We have Roe deer and a growing number of little Muntjac deer living in the woods that surround us.  We see them everyday cutting across the paddocks and even coming right up to the back door on occasion.  So which ever one of them it was the other night  will have got a shock when they came back last night, to find someone with big glaring eyes watching them. 

 

It seems to have worked for now, there is no more damage this morning, and after I gave the plants a good drink yesterday some of them have recovered.  I'm going to stop by there on the way to feed the chickens and pick up all the damaged strawberries to add to their corn this afternoon.