"Judith Lea" wrote in message
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In article , K
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How wonderful to have a badger - I have never seen one. I'm intrigued by
your 'poussin type birds'. Are they partridges, or even quail?

They are partridges, so my beloved tells me anyway! I forgot to mention
that two tiny weenie rabbits or hares, newly born I would think, were
left all alone in a large tuft of gtass with ice and snow all around them,
they looked dead but on touching them I could feel they were not. I
waited a few hours to see if their mother would return but she didn't and
I knew they could not survive outside any longer. A little girl in the
village took both of them, kept them in a box in the airing cupboard but
they died that night. Why did they end up in my garden and not in a warm
burrow?


If they were new-born hares, as seems most probable, they do not use
burrows, and it is usual for the mother to leave them alone, apart from
infrequent nocturnal visits for feeding. If the mother has died before the
young are weaned, they will most probably die too.