Category Archives: Visitors

The Great Escape #3

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Michael

It’s been bucketing down with rain all morning, yet all four chickens have been blithely pottering around the pen for most of it.  Truly, their ways are not our ways. And then Vi seized the opportunity to mount a third … Continue reading →

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Feathered friends

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Michael

Along with these two pigeons, we’ve had magpies and a seagull popping in to say hello to their new feathered friends in the chicken pen. Or at least that’s what I’d write if I was the kind of numpty who … Continue reading →

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The Great Escape #1

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Michael

The chickens are pretty blasé about adults approaching them, but they queue up expectantly whenever they spot what they probably refer to as “red-haired food girl”, because her arrival usually coincides with them getting some kind of treat (usually a … Continue reading →

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Trespassers will be pecked

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Michael

The chickens are fighting over a slug.  That’s nature red in tooth and claw for you.  Or possibly beak and claw in this case. But it’s hard to get too emotional about the situation, as it was the slug’s fault … Continue reading →

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One of us?

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Michael

The chickens haven’t quite got used to us entering the pen yet – do you think this would make a difference? (Entirely coincidentally, the film from which this still was taken, Jan Švankmajer’s Conspirators of Pleasure, is getting its British … Continue reading →

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