Wednesday, February 28, 2007
A Unselfish and Entertaining Guest
Posted in Everyday life
We have had the privilege the past 2 days of having a bit of extra company here at our homestead.  He is a very polite guest, only eating the scraps of what others do not want to eat. He is also quite small, gray, has a long nose, a skinny little tale and appears to be blind. He is of course a mole. He has been nibbling at the seeds on the ground under our birdfeeders. It is fun to watch him him popping in and out of the snow. One of the cutest actions of this little guy is watching when he runs away back to his home (I am guessing that is where he goes!). Being blind he has no way to see what is or isn't in the path up ahead. When he comes upon one of our boot prints in the snow, which is about 8 inches deep, he has no way obviously of knowing it is there. He is just running along his merry way and then "Plop!" he is gone. As though he has fallen off the side of a cliff! He crawls back out of the boot print and runs on again, only to fall into another boot print about a foot or so away. He did this 3 times yesterday before he was out of my line of vision. It didn't discourage him,though. He is back again today nibbling away! |
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