(8/1) Another benefit is all the birds outside the kitchen window. Here a male Bullfinch.

And a Yellowhammer. Looks almost like a Canary bird.

(9/1) What's this, leftovers from the New Year's party? Nope, this is the stock of food some Yellow-necked Mice living in our garage for the last two months had collected. Until now, we could not understand why they never got trapped in the mousetrap. Why should they eat our crap food when they could eat peanuts intended for the birds outside and wreak havoc with our precious stuff in the garage? Made us think of fat cousin Emile in the movie Ratatouille.

All by a sudden we found their nest at the bottom of one still not unpacked cardboard box. We caught one, but the other disappeared. They may be hard on your stuff, but when did you see such a cute thing? We couldn't kill it and let it go far away from our house. His/her friend was not so lucky, when the nuts where gone the rat poison got it.