{"id":75940,"date":"2018-01-08T02:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mesmerised-by-the-mole-that-dug-up-my-garden-letters\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:03:10","slug":"mesmerised-by-the-mole-that-dug-up-my-garden-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mesmerised-by-the-mole-that-dug-up-my-garden-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesmerised by the mole that dug up my garden | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA blackbird would stand beside it, taking the worms and insects dislodged, recalls Sallie BedfordWe had a mole a few years ago that made 17 molehills on our back lawn in as many days (Country diary, 4 January). I watched from the kitchen window each morning as the new hill was being excavated, the earth moving with clumps falling away. A blackbird would stand beside it, watching carefully and taking the worms and insects dislodged \u2013 fascinating! This was another wild creature to add to our garden list of frogs, grass snakes, lizards, slowworms and so on and we loved having it, though I must confess to trying to catch it by standing over it when the earth was moving one day and grabbing at the soil, without success. How did it move so quickly? Instead of collecting the soil we raked it back into the grass and eventually the mole departed (to the flower beds) and the area returned to its meadow-like state. Sallie BedfordHenfield, West Sussex \u2022 Join the debate \u2013 email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading…
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