I’m baffled

We’ve got another day like yesterday. It’s not as cold (not quite) but we’ve got mist that will linger all day and discourage getting involved in any outdoor activities. Nevertheless I always like to take a stroll around my land to see what’s been going on and this is what I found this morning.

The sanglier appear to have paid me another visit but this time, bizarrely, only a very fleeting one as there are only three small scrapes to be seen. Usually even when they’ve just been snuffling around to see what they can find they do much more damage than this in the process and I can’t understand what was different this time. And I also can’t see where they (or more likely, ‘it’ from the limited amount of damage) came from.

There’s no damage anywhere on my new fencing and from what I think is new damage on my neighbour’s land on the north side, it appears that as usual, a small herd came up the rise and through the gap at the eastern end. Was my small amount of damage caused by a lone piglet that was able to squeeze through my fence’s mesh and then dashed off to look for its mother and the rest of the herd when it realised it was alone? Has the penny dropped for whoever was responsible that my land has been excavated so much that it has no more piggy delights to offer up?

I have to say that I really haven’t a clue and I don’t think that I’ll ever truly know. What I do know, though, is that I must just be thankful for small mercies – and for my new ‘anti-sanglier’ fence that on this occasion seems to have done its job!