Our woodland feeders have been attracting a couple of very smart, clean and actually very timid Brown Rats with their blackberry eyes and starfish hands. With water levels still actually quite low they have been venturing out to snaffle the odd peanut or seed from under the table in the woodland much to the chagrin of the birds and inparticular the Robins which have been scolding them from above. When the water is higher it tends to discourage them but with the way this winter has been we shall have to accept that they have become part of the attraction!
(Mark Hart)