The rain has started

All of a sudden the weather has changed from lovely Autumn weather to raging wind and rain. The cattle are in the shed luckily, the cows came in about 10 minutes before the rain began. We like the animals to come in with dry backs. We wormed them all last week this means that they will be worm free all Winter. Every day we will be unrolling large bales of straw to ensure the cattle have a dry clean bed to lie on. Their diet will be crushed grain and silage. The cows are be due to calve in January.It`s always exciting to see the new born calves. The mother makes a lovely quiet mooing noise as she bonds with her baby. The ducks and geese are delighted with this rain they are dabbling around all the puddles. The hens meanwhile are standing looking out of their house looking absoutly miserable. I suppose they will go on strike and stop laying eggs.

Barn owl.

We were sitting watching television. It was about 9.30.pm we heard a scrabbling noise at the window and a great flapping of wings.. It was a barn owl.We wondered what it was doing. Maybe it was attacking it`s reflection in the lighted window. The next morning as I went outside I saw the sweetest little harvest mouse,it was trying to hide in a tuft of grass. We realised that the owl must have dropped his supper as he flew over the house then tried to recatch it. We have a juvanile barn owl, it was a late hatching.It hasn`t quite got the hang of being an owl yet.When I was gardening one day it swooped low over my head. It`s flight was absolutly silent, it was so white and beautiful. I hope it can catch enough food to survive the Winter.