Today at the lottie. A biggish hole going under the shed, must be a rat but..... a bit too big for that. Later I walked around the flower part and in the middle of the woodchip path was a bump with a big circle of scratching around the pile of chips. When I had a closer look to see what it could be I noticed something like thin, yellowish french bean looking things. No, not beans............. toes! Long yellow toes. Cripes, they were the toes of a water fowl I don't know the English name for it. They are black with a white spot on the face and they have enormous feet. Something burried it and I don't think rats do that.
Last spring, my partner Clint saw an ermine moving her babies to a different spot in the lottie complex, making many trips back and forth. I wish I was there at the time, would have loved to have seen it. I wonder if our mystery guest could be an ermine. I guess they don't do any harm to the garden so we'll just leave it.
