When we arrived here in Greece three weeks ago, we discovered we had a visor we didn’t especially want in our garden, but after all, it could have been worse. We wondered at first who had made all these holes in the ground, more than 20, some of them more than 10 cm in diameter and equally deep, but after a while we understood it must have been a badger. None of the holes disturbed anything important and the digging can’t have lasted very long.
The next visitor this year was more than welcome, the tortoise moved so slowly that it was possible to get some photos of it; the hare that jumped out of a bush the other day near a small vegetable patch did not stop long enough for a portrait.
We weren’t prepared with a camera for the last visitor either; we woke up around five in the morning when we heard a rather deep, but loud hooting, my husband managed to get out of bed quickly enough to see the eagle owl (Bubo bubo) sitting on our roof, just before it lifted and disappeared. I hope it comes back; we have seen it before in the forest behind us.

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Jorun Tharaldsen, on Flickr

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Jorun Tharaldsen, on Flickr