Some Visitors at Work
April 14 - 28, 2020 Part Three While working in the feed shed we were visited several times by some very cute martens. The first time a little guy came in from the outside through the large garage door and he came in sniffing around. Every so often he would freeze and look at us, and then carry on sniffing around. He jumped up onto the rim of the garbage can, which was probably my fault for throwing an apple core inside, otherwise there would have been no food in it at all. He was very good at balancing on the rim of the can and then hanging off of his hind legs while rummaging around with his front legs. When he was walking around on the ground he looked like a cross between a kitten and a bear cub, and he was very cute. Another day I was up on one of the four corner second-floor areas. There were two stacks of pallets in the middle of the area and I kept hearing a grunting noise. Then when ...