Morrigan strikes again

A visit to Kairos and on the way down the track, this.

They are "managing deer" now, which means, of course, shooting them. I am very ambivalent. I appreciate that the area is struggling to regenerate due to the pressure of muntjac density. The financial and logistical limitations mean that deer-fencing the whole place is not going to happen. And if they did that, they'd still need to shoot the deer trapped in by the fences. But a mother and baby had been nearby on the last two occasions on which I visited Kairos as well as a yearling.... whom I think this was.

As for how the head ended up detached and on the track... well... fox? Badger? Sicko? I don't know.

A little bit later I passed four broken eggs in a place where I often found broken eggs last year. They were not the vacated homes of newly hatched chicks but evidence of eating.

Then, the pheasant feathers... though perhaps the bird got away, sans tail.

The image on the front page is a little skeleton I discovered right by the tree himself. No escape from the death today. And, when I sat to tree-talk-dream, the Morrigan came my way... find out her message tomorrow!