Some Of The Other Residents

The Madra Rua Clan

As promised in the last post, it's now time to introduce some of the other residents of my wicklow garden. Yesterdays' post about fox gloves reminded me that I must mention our family of foxes, the Madra Rua Clan. They are a fairly illusive family and as we are surrounded by gorse there are plenty of places for them to hide out. Every evening between seven and eight thirty they parade across the rocks in front of the house on their way to or from somewhere. I have been advised that they are most probably heading out on a bin raiding mission though I do worry for the neighbour's hens down the road. They are quite comfortable in close proximity to the house and sometimes the cub will even linger and play a little to our amusement but not to the liking of my two dogs! We don't allow the dogs out until they are well gone as we our not sure who would come off the worse, our dogs are only little and foxes can be mean as well as clever. More about other residents later.