A quick look in Immac when I arrived showed little new mouse evidence, although they may just be biding their time! I did another bottle of weed killer and sprayed it on the stumps in the gully. This time I read the instructions properly and used much more than last time so it will be interesting to see if it works.
The mouse in the hive has been busy. I had put the metal cleaver over the hole in the box of nibs last time I cleared out his nest, to deter him, so he has just eaten his way round it and started again! It can't be good for him to eat all that plastic. I moved the nibs into the metal ammo box and generally tided up, hopefully that will be as successful as down in Immac.
Once the shed was clean I cleared brambles by the path up by the cars, it did not look like there was much when I started but I soon had a wheelbarrow full and it looks a lot clearer now. It looks like we have the first casualty from the oak saplings though.
After some lunch I spent an hour with the camera. First impressions were frustrating but on review at home it was not so bad. I made a new suet feeder and the nuthatch and tits were very keen on it but most of the shots are overexposed so I need to work on that.
Today was mostly on auto settings but I did use manual focus later. I'm a bit annoyed as the manual focus was a key thing I looked at before buying and the review said it has a twist lens like a DSLR to set the manual focus, but in fact that must have been a totally different review because it doesn't and it's actually really fiddly, definitely not something that can be done quickly. (feel free to insert derogatory Canon comment here!)
I had cooled down quite a bit, which is a bit of a novelty after the last couple of months, so I spent another half hour clearing brambles behind the hive then called it a day to sort out the car track setup before tomorrows rain.
