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A two hare day

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It was a semi good day. The good bit was at the Reserve and this was actually the day after my final day at the coppice, when the man I met showed me a woodcarving he'd done that featured a wren and talked to me about magic moments with hares.


I'd been to the hospital for a check up and had shown them this ulcer in my throat. They don't think it's throat cancer (turns out they both vape too) but say I'm to go back in six weeks. This is my hypochondria. Soon as I have an issue, I suspect it's terminal. And who will feed the cats? And the crows and Bobbit? Anyway, that was sort of good. But on the same day I learned that after four months of not drinking lovely wine and instead taking milk thistle, my liver is still not perfect. It has improved a bit but the misery of being tee total might not be worth it. That said, Pentire non alcoholic spirit is quite nice.


I'd intended to do a tree report in a park but decided instead to visit my sentinels on the Reserve. I ran down the track and then went in to where a slightly unhealthy oak resides. The tree was same as ever, but there, bounding alone the shore of the reservoir was a hare! I only found this tree because I saw a hare turn off the track into the scrub and I followed. Here we were again, with the tree!


As I walked across the bridge, I heard wrens all around me and I saw two of them. They are so much more reddish [Errrr... grammar? - Ed.] than I expect them to be... I wonder if to those animals with more colour receptors they look different? Anyway, this reminded me of the wood carving - and, of course, there'd been the hare.


Further along was a place where a hare lay down close by me for a nap. Until I moved due to biting midges. Lo! and behold! another hare! I followed this one off the track and found a curiosity display of honeysuckle-sculpted stems.



And then I saw this...



This was a very successful trip. One tree with a condition to report, which makes me feel I am doing something with the training they gave me.


There was something else positive, which I will witter about tomorrow, but the liver and throat cancer [Oh, come on! - Ed.] remain an underlying minor concern.

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maplekey4
Mar 10, 2024

A very hare-ly day!!

What was going on with the dead stump of a tree in the last two photos?

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