Can’t find the video of her with a rat but found the video of her when she first came into my workshop in May 2024.
She looks very confident here, and paces around like that when she’s hunting for rats. I think she tries to disturb/surprise them out into the open by her constant pacing in and around the workshop.
It didn’t take her long on this first visit to locate the cat food up on the table.
Will continue searching the badly organised recesses of my computer & other hard disks!
I know what you mean. We have over 70TB of hard drive space on various drives and it often proves a job and a half to find what we’re looking for. Stuart keeps meaning to sort his photos (using Lightroom) and I keep meaning to organise the films, series and sports programmes we have stored.
But thank you for posting the video. 
A rat was scampering around high up in the branches of my cherry tree eating its blossom, a sign apparently of extreme hunger.
Can you see those human-like little pink fingers?
Poor little blighter…
Noooo poor little creature,maybe a bowl of something at the foot of the tree?
It’s cold weather here at the moment so I’ll leave some sunflower seeds there. 
And what a marvellous photograph!
She’s young and was moving fast amongst the blossoms but I managed to get a 2nd shot.
She looks a little under nourished to me.
Little sweetie 
My birds are tailing off for the season. I dont expect thry’ll want much more food, they are normally finished from now through to late August or lateish September when I start again
As soon as natural food is available again tbey choose it. I know thry only eat what I leave if they need it.
I am only feeding the birds in cold or wet weather now. Insects are much reduced which the adults will need to feed their new broods. The adults need to eat as well as the chicks, so an occasional bird feeder will help ease their burden. When there is bird seed on my window cill it is soon gone.
I put a mixture of sunflower seeds and cat croquettes at the base of my cherry tree for the rat, but my neighbour’s cat got there first – he’d sniffed out the croquettes!
Found this beauty enjoying the warm sunshine on the Mairie steps this afternoon. didn’t want to budge, but I eventually (gently) persuaded it to flutter off to some vegetation and our of harm’s way. 
EDIT: I’ve discovered that this beautiful Great Peacock Moth can’t eat and dies after about 7 days, so I was very lucky to find it while it was still alive… hurrah.
Seems this giant moth is also “Up North” - Morbihan/southern Brittany
Anyone else spotted one?
Took a hasty photo early this wet morning of a tall wild plant almost at flowering point, just outside my garden gate, ostensibly to see how well the macro facility of a dusty old unearthed Nikon camera with only enough juice in its battery for one photo, would perform.
Looked at the photo 30 minutes later, zoomed right in, and saw a fly sheltering under one of its leaves. Went back out to look, and it was still there, sheltering from the rain. This ‘weed’ was shelter for a tiny fly, a species low down in the essential food chain.
Just to make the point that if a million wild flowers like this one, and probably millions more, are spared, then millions of flies just like this one, at the bottom of nature’s food chain, are preserved to do their part in nurturing nature.
I’ve let both my gardens run wild and am beginning to see a close up beauty in wild gardens.
Took this photo in 2021, I think. Hope to take a lot more like this, this year.
A mossy bumblebee or a common bumblebee or a field bumblebee - difficult to distinguish apart apparently. Don’t know if this is a male or female – size determines. There are 44 species of bumblebee in France.
Interesting detail, IMO - the left leg reaching out and the tiny hand gripping the edge of a leaf.
Super photos !
Think I’ve found a new hobby! Gone are the days when I rode my bicycle with camera over shoulder.
A stool, a camera, my garden and what grows there naturally is absorbing. All I’m waiting for now is a new macro lens.
More creepy crawlies - tiny beetles - hidden away in tiny flowers. Not sure what flower this is - it’s 20 mm dia. on a long stalk.
I could hear what sounded like a swarm of bees yesterday in the garden. Looking closely at the likeliest tree, I could see lots of bumblebees. Very noisy! they seem to love the emerging flowers. We have 5 mature Linden trees…that’s a lot of bees! They don’t stop until dusk.
Couldn’t help notice white butterflies fluttering round banks of flowering bramble. I also couldn’t help notice the bramble flower in various stages of development from bud to flower to seed all at the same time.
Then wondered about its evolution – plants started their evolution 300/400 million+ years ago.
Fascinating. All about propagation of the species, and they all do it powered by those years of evolution behind them. Resulting in the mad rush of Spring!
