Shhhh!!

At this time of the year, she sleeps together with her eggs for next spring’s brood. She carefully tucks her delicate legs and wings under her body to protect them from damage and clamps onto a piece of wood with her jaws. This one seems to have become detached and might have succumbed at this early stage. Nevertheless I’ll move her aside and gather fuel from another part of the wood store.

A shaky image - should've gone to specsavers...