{"id":20185,"date":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=20185"},"modified":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T06:00:00","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2021\/01\/26\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife recognises me – Tuesday 26th January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wildlife recognises me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In our garden, the wildlife recognises me. It doesn\u2019t go as far as calling \u2018Good morning, Aristotle,\u2019 when I go outside, but maybe that will come. All three of us use the back garden. Shadow and Wilma have a tendency to chase the birds. If they so much as get the scent of the squirrels they are looking for them everywhere. Me? I have a more of a live and let live attitude. It may be mingled with a bit of chasing anything is too much trouble, but for whatever reason I feel no need to bounce on anything small and furry or feathery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Different behaviour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The interesting thing is that the wildlife has now accepted that I\u2019m not a threat and can tell the difference between me and the girls. When Mum takes the girls outside, all other wildlife disappears from sight. She can sometimes hear them calling to each other and frankly some of what they are saying is probably rude, but they stay out of sight. When I go outside, they do look up from their perches, but then they carry on feeding as though nothing has happened. Mum says I should take it as a compliment. It does have its perks. It means if Mum wants to be around with her camera to see if any of them want their photos taken, then I can be out with her too. That, of course, will seem like more of a perk when the weather warms up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakfast in Bed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We think the squirrels have been having breakfast in bed on the cold days. They only have to run down their tree to the squirrel feeder and then back up to their drey. They don\u2019t even need to come as far as ground level unless they want a drink or the peanut kernels. Even the water is only a couple of meters from the bottom of their tree. They really have got quite a cushy number going here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Squirrel coming for a drink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s cold, I\u2019m just going to watch them from my nice warm comfy spot indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aristotle says ‘Wildlife recognises me’ as it decides to stay around the garden when he goes out, but is nowhere to be seen if Shadow or Wilma are there.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[63,27,58,93],"class_list":["post-20185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-aristotle","tag-shadow","tag-wildlife","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}