Garden Wildlife.

This cheeky female squirrel makes frequent trips into our garden. She either expertly jumps, almost flying, from tree to tree just beyond the garden fence or when the dense shrubbery covering the fence top is hacked back she takes a run across the fence top and down into the garden. She's ruined many a cheap bird feeder by grabbing it and chewing away until the contents spill out. Even the squirrel proof feeders appear to be no obstacle to her. So now we hang a heavy duty metal feeder with peanuts in the tree and put feed in a tray on the ground.

This seems to have satisfied her appetite. She's obviously had kits (or whatever the squirell equivelent of babies are called) this summer. Fairly late in the summer by the look of her and occasionally a youngster comes bounding along the fence inspecting all the hanging bird feeders until it finds the food it can get at.