Just to say the deer are marauding. The day I went to town last week I returned to find they had eaten the hearts out of 7 fully grown lettuce and eaten the fruit and leaves of some 20 strawberry plants.

As if I didn’t get the message on Sat 12th I went to the village to help with some computer issues, which I failed to resolve, only to find on my return that 12 perfectly good lettuce had been yomped again.

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Well twice more, today 19th being the latest.

I am not keen on fencing and will have to make my presence noted some other way.

The proper action is to just be here, but 24/7/52 is not going to happen.

So the alternatives are:

• Pee on trees to leave a ‘mark’
• Hang a few shiny items from the trees, like old CDs to annoy they
• Place a few twigs in stategic places to make things a bit difficult in places
• Install some infra-red sensor to enable a sound and/or visual disturbance

Well some day, anyway.

Well not much bova and no sight of a beaver. But I noticed some chippings off a willow tree by the river and looking at the teeth marks, thought it could only be a beaver.

Hugh Tyler from Natural England and my Friend Rowena have informed me that a beaver was caught in Gunnislake around Christmas 2008. Rowena said the beaver may have been from a transition site in north Devon, acclimatising before transfer to Scotland. Maybe another escapee or the same one. Poor soul is alone and trying to damn the River Tamar on a tidal stretch.
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Sure I didn’t have to give him or her a name.

I found ‘my’ first hedgehog on the land around midnight 27/28th June. He was just down from triangle field entrance sat in the right-hand tyre track as you descend the path.

Worried that someone in a late travelling vehicle could do a number on it, I carried it down to my compost heap. I’m a bit concerned that I took it some 100 yards from its ‘home’ but I was a bit excited which played into my possessive nature.

So I have a hedgehog, how cool is that?