I should think you have a neighbouring cat that thought you'd like
cheering up during lockdown and so brought you a present Helen lol.
Many years ago when I was a horse riding instructor the farm cat would
bring "presents" for us and generally leave them inside out riding boots
in the porch lol. Riding boots are quite close fitting so often need a
boot jack to remove them....not fun when you push your foot into your
boot and feel a squashy dead frog in the bottom....or worse a "half dead
frog" LOL.
Don't have nightmares lol
Ann
On 29/10/2020 17:10, Helen Nunn wrote:
Hi Paul
I love that wonderful hive!
And the cat - it should close its eyes, then it'd be invisible.
Here is a riddle which I would love solved. Last week in our dining room I found a corpse. A headless mouse, very bedraggled as if it had been drowned as well. Our back door, which is usually closed, but may have been open briefly while I cut the lawn, is two rooms away from the dining room. We don't have a cat, (or dog nowadays). Immediate neighbour's cat died a year or two ago. Other cats are not welcome - I shoo them away on sight. How did this mouse get into our dining room? A dead mouse is one thing. A headless dead mouse is quite another.
Any ideas?
Helen
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 16:52, Oxnatbees <oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Here's another exotic hive type for the radical experimentalist
wing - Der Schilftrog, an evolution of the Einraumbeute using
reeds for insulation:
https://www.kleine-holzbiegerei.de/schilfrohrbeute/
<https://www.kleine-holzbiegerei.de/schilfrohrbeute/>
Also, I attach a fun picture "in_the_bush". Can you see the cat?*
I don't know how long the neighbour's cat has been using this bush
as a rain shelter, I just spotted them sneaking in today. This
made me reflect on how I have seen cats sleeping on top of (flat
topped) hives but bouncy dogs sometimes have problems round hives,
when they stick their noses in the entrance. And then an aphorism
popped into my head: "near the hive, glide like a cat, don't dodge
like a dog."
Paul
* Black cat, ground level, about 12 inches to the left of the hive
entrance.
