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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I grew up in an apartment and I lived in apartments all the way until we moved here to Sp\u00e5nga, 6 years ago. Although I did spend all the summers of my childhood at my grandmother’s sommer cottage in the country.<\/p>\n
I knew that a house would bring all sorts of new responsibilities. All sorts of renovation projects, shovelling snow and raking leaves – no big surprises there.<\/p>\n
One thing I wasn’t quite prepared for was the amount of death, or perhaps the closeness of it.<\/p>\n
In an apartment one may find dead house plants, and flies and spiders, and probably nothing higher up the evolutionary tree.<\/p>\n
Here, we have had birds kill themselves by flying into our windows. We’ve had strong circumstantial evidence (of the olfactory kind) of a dead rat\/mouse and then another poisoned rat under the house. And in the past two weeks we’ve found two dead young birds in the garden.<\/p>\n
Ingrid found the first one. She didn’t want us to just throw it in the garbage so we buried it, and planted a primrose on it grave. When we found the second one I gave it a less ceremonial burial. Now I’m thinking I should maybe mark its grave somehow after all, because otherwise I might get an unpleasant surprise if I ever try to plant something there.<\/p>\n
I wonder how long it takes for a dead bird to be reduced to its skeleton under the ground.<\/p>\n
I found dead birds surprisingly hard to identify. They do not look like they normally do at all. Posture is a big part of birdness. However based on their size and colouring, I guess they might have been young blackbirds – probably taken by cats.<\/p>\n
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