Last week I went to check on our house outside falerone:  Ok House is stretching it a bit, lets say "part restored farmhouse".  I was a lttle scared when I heard a noise upstairs.  Door was locked, windows secure but definately something in the loft room.  Ready for combat and quite scared I went up and found a fully grown kestrel in the loft.  Scared but still active the poor thing had become trapped.  We were able to catch it using gloves (not thick enough but it was something) and free it: great ot see it fly fast and straight into the distance.

An Aesops fables moment (OK I know that was grapes....) I went down to check on our  large cherry tree, bent over with the weight of cherries this year and surprised two large adult foxes doing the same thing. Lying in the long grass just out of reach of the branches, not sure who was the most surprised, one of those magic "Italy moments", they are welcome to the cherries as long as they keep away from the chicken coop. Which now resembles Fort Knox.!