Well I came down to make a cup of tea and immediately saw two potential allotment eating culprits just outside the kitchen window. The rabbit (or young hare) was wolfing down dandelion leaves. I say hare as when he moved off he shadow boxed with his front legs and I didn't think rabbits did this. The pigeons so far are more interested in the field area but Dave reckons this is only as they are waiting for our produce to grow larger and even more tasty. The dandelions were also the focus of attention for a family of goldfinches. I watched as they used their feet to walk from the bottom of the stalk up to the seed head (making the whole stem much more manageable by bringing it down to the ground) so they could eat the seeds. One of them was a baby and although the same size as the adult birds it kept flapping its wings and waiting for food.
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