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La Cote (or Half-way down on the left) This blog aims to record our project to breathe new life into an old house in rural France which has not been lived in year round for many years.
Saturday, 28 May 2016
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Where there are frogs there are snakes
This afternoon suddenly became quite sunny and humid and as I have been tidying up and mowing the grass around Ropion (the little house opposite La Côte) I went over to have a little break.
As I walked over towards the back of the plot and the woodpiles I suddenly saw two large snakes (sun-bathing I think in the open. I'd almost forgotten about snakes at La Côte but anyway I think thay were grass snakes (coulevre) rather than adders (viper) and in any case they didn't hang around to be identified.
I think that the blue tit nesting in the wall was also fairly disturbed by their presence judging by it's behaviour.
Apparently snakes like to be around places where they can eat frogs, hence the title of this entry. Makes sense when you look at the previous blog entry.
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Wildlife at La Côte
People keep asking me if I get lonely at La Côte on my own (Anne is off walking to St Jacques de Compostela at the moment). The answer is that apart from keeping pretty busy gardening and processing piles of wood for firewood, there are plenty of animals around to keep me company. There are over a dozen frogs in the pond to sing me to sleep every night, an ever increasing population of rabbits, the kestrel, various small birds nesting in holes in walls and of course the bees who live in the base of one of the acacia trees are very active any time the sun shines....
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