Outdoor Daily

Such are the entertainments during lockdown that I find myself staring into space wondering who made it.

Don’t worry, this is not going to be a deep discussion about existential questions: I’m looking at holes in the hedgerows, the kind burrowing creatures make, badgers and rabbits, mice and rats, spiders, beetles, bees and worms.

Trying to find out who occupies these holes is more difficult than I thought. But I came across a number of interesting websites, including one on identifying different bees, specifically solitary bees, how to recognise burrows of mammals, and a lot of sensationalist stories about venomous spiders not worth repeating here.

Not that any of this information stopped me wondering who lives in these spaces….and my dog T’isker keeps investigating for himself.