Now when I\u2019m talking about tweeting I\u2019m not talking about the Internet. Our Mistress went up into the loft to check on the mouse situation yesterday (and by the way we\u2019ve had no more problems since catching Mickey and Minnie a while ago), and while she was up there she could hear lots of baby tweet coming from the swallows\u2019 nest. I got all excited thinking it was good news about the swallows, but sadly it\u2019s not. It turns out that sparrows have taken over the nest. Our Mistress was reading up on it and apparently it\u2019s quite a common thing. The only good news is that in our case the sparrows did not kill the swallows in the process. That would have made us very sad. Nature can be a very cruel place. It also said that swallows don\u2019t often go back to the same nest, so I took some comfort from that that our swallows might be all right, but just living somewhere else.<\/p>\n
The spikes have arrived for the roof to stop the crow. The funny thing is though, with the weather being so dull the crow hasn\u2019t been bothering getting up so early and hasn\u2019t started pecking until later in the day. He\u2019s not gone away, that would have been too much to hope, but at least it gives our Mistress chance to get the spikes up to try to stop him altogether. She\u2019s hoping that the sealant that she\u2019s got that can be used to fix them hasn\u2019t dried up. She\u2019s got to go out and find it in the garage. I\u2019m betting on that being closely followed by a trip to the DIY store! She doesn\u2019t want to use a permanent fixer as if the spikes don\u2019t work she\u2019d like to be able to take them down again. I\u2019m betting on that plan not working either!<\/p>\n
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