A gathering

Yesterday I focused on the conversations with trees, but more ideas and wonderings occurred during my wanderings.

For example, I think I have mentioned before these marks on oak trees. They look like a deer has scraped his antlers on the bark, but are often far too high. Many oak trees have one area like this and I have no idea what they are about. I asked the Saviour Tree who said, "These are my markings." Which was not helpful.

I keep noticing them and Rebecca at the Woodland Trust suggested deer, but some of these it would have to be a bloody moose to get up that high. I wondered about squirrel scratching, but they are often under branches. And each tree has ONE. They do not seem to be man made... and I did not check if all faced one direction... maybe that would help.

Anyway.

I have resolved a garden mystery. I put out a load of stuff and one night it didn't all go, the next it did, but the camera only showed a few videos of cat and hedgehog, with both leaving the large stuff. Then I realised that the fox must have come when the sun was rising and the light of the sun prevented the camera from seeing as it was directed due east.

Still, I like this cat/hog interaction.

Clare says the hedgehog looks very healthy.

I hope the fox is.

Son of Bob is very busy with his singing and makes only fleeting visits. He still comes close and today I watched him eat a whole worm. Though he regurgitated something a little later. Fledgling Robin took some food from the box. He's more worried about SoB than he is about me. The Merlin app claimed it heard a bullfinch. I am dubious.

Finally, this was referenced in a book I listened to - Charlotte McConaghy's Once There Were Wolves (here is an interview about it, which I haven't listened to). I enjoyed the novel very much and was intrigued by the references to Werner's Nomenclature of Colours. The interactive guide I have linked to above is rather wonderful. The guy Werner found various natural creatures, plants and minerals with the same colour and described how to mix those colours... it's a sort of entangling by hue rather than biology... inspiring for a poet, I think.