You may (or may not) have noticed that the squirrels have been absent from the blog this winter. The reason is very simple – I haven’t seen any squirrels since early January. The seeds and nuts can go untouched for days so they’re not around here even when I’m not. And when the food did disappear, it looked like it was the roe deer that had helped themselves to a snack but now there’s so much snow that the deer are avoiding the de-tour to the squirrel perch.

So now I’m pinning my hopes on the mating season, maybe it will bring some new activity to my corner of the woods – I saw two squirrels today anyway!

And speaking of absentees, I haven’t seen any birds either. I thought my new feeding setup was a success in the autumn, but then when the snowing started in December the birds disappeared and I haven’t seen them since. I hope they’re ok though and just feeding elsewhere.