{"id":113741,"date":"2020-01-19T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hungry-birds-and-marauding-moles-create-a-sense-of-wonder\/"},"modified":"2020-01-19T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T07:10:14","slug":"hungry-birds-and-marauding-moles-create-a-sense-of-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hungry-birds-and-marauding-moles-create-a-sense-of-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry birds and marauding moles create a sense of wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFill up the feeders, grab some binoculars and a guidebook, and watch as the tits, finches and blackbirds swoop inDenmark, end of December. The constant sound of the sea, the smell of wood smoke and salt. The air is almost kippered. It\u2019s the wettest winter since their records began. Flowering daisies in the long grass, dead leaves lie like damp leather. Confused new shoots everywhere.The moles have been busy tunnelling under the mossy \u2018lawn\u2019. I shovel up 20 hills, barrow the sandy soil to the edges of the plot. The raked-up leaf will lie there, too. I will sow it with wild flower seed in early summer to join the wood anemone, hepatica, forget-me-not and campion that thrive in the more shadowy spaces. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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