There's an elephant on my courtyard!

As on most Sundays I stayed home today. After I'd taken some photos of my birds Mieke and Ozzie and my rabbit Rosie I went onto our courtyard to water the plants and plant up a few more of them. When I opened the door there was a mouse lying dead on the floor. We knew we had at least one around because we'd seen the droppings but we didn't use any poison and only put down a humane trap to try and catch it. The mouse also didn't show any sign of wounds anywhere so I have no idea what might have killed it. It's probably silly of me but I couldn't just throw this dead mouse in the bin. Instead I put into a plastic bag and tomorrow I'm going to bury it under a thick carpet of dead leaves somewhere in the park.

This is not my usual kind of blip but after finding the mouse I felt like posting something funny today and chose a shot of my elephant watering can which I'd put aside until I would need it after I'd finished the planting.

The left side of the window box behind my little elephant was the nesting site of a female Blackbird 2 years ago. I had the rare privilege of seeing her and her mate raise 3 successive broods and watching a total of 8 chicks fledge successfully from our courtyard. Unfortunately they haven't been back since.

Thank you very much for the lovely comments and stars on my Mallard family blip from yesterday.