We've seen a lot of the Barn Owls this week. I think the wet weather must be making hunting difficult, as we've spotted them out and about as early as 5pm. They're nesting in an oak tree about 300yds from the house, and even when you see them every day, it still gives a thrill to spot them gliding silently over the (uncut) hay.
Late June and early July is always a difficult time with the hens - it gets dark so late that sometimes it's past my bed time when the chickens go up to roost. Consequently it's difficult to lock them up at night and we have lost three to a fox within a week - may be the same vixen, providing for cubs.
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- I'm 39, happily married and mother of Kate (5 years old) and Charlie (3 years). I trained and worked in finance for 16 years, but set up orchardcards.co.uk in April 2006 because I couldn't easily buy tasteful and unsentimental cards in my local town - I used to visit John Lewis (an hour away) every few months and stock up on about 20 at a time, and I figured there must be others out there like me who would like to buy nice cards by mail order. The other members of the Orchardcards.co.uk team are my husband Richard and colleague Becky Pass
