Well Hoglet has decided to carry on using the second hog house to sleep in. He's not using it every day. Originally it seemed he was staying every third day. However it now appears that he is timing his stays around bad weather. I knew that Friday 1st October and Sunday 3rd October would both have heavy rain. On both days Hoglet stayed all day in the hog house.
I cleaned it out on Saturday 2nd October as there was a fair bit of poo. I relined the box with newspaper and added loads of dust free hay. Sunday morning I checked and it didn't look like anything had been in the house at all. Before Hoglet had flattened the bedding down and laid on top of it. I did carefully move a couple of strands of the hay and suddenly realised that Hoglet was underneath. He had burrowed under the hay. With all the heavy rain it was quite nice to know that he was safe and warm.
A strange Magpie is coming into the garden. It has a lot of feathers missing on it's head and particularly around it's eyes. At first I was concerned that it was blind. However it can clearly see and is able to fly and is feeding. The problem is that two other Magpies are attacking it on a regular basis. I have no idea why. It could be that they regard my garden as their own food store as they are down every day.
Some interesting fox behaviour recently. The video below was a fight over food and it appears that it is two cubs involved. Cubs start to move away from their parents in October so it will be interesting to see how the vistitors to the garden change.
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