The beast

Proudly we reported, even in the latest posts, about our shouting sunflowers, directing towards the sky. They would become for sure higher than 2 meter, maybe 3 meter was already in sight.

The 3 meter was in sight.

Was in sight. 

Yes “was”. Maybe some of the plants will still go over the 2 meter but the tallest one is … broken.

I have in the very back of the garden a trunk coming up 1.5 meter high. This is the perfect place for putting some small leftovers from the table.  It’s fun to see the hooded crows and the magpies taking only seconds to let the food disappear (the ones from the rat in a former post).

Yesterday I went to the trunk for dumping again some food. But I didn’t reach it. Halfway is our new vegetable garden and the potato field boarded with marigold at the southern side and sunflowers at the northern. Huge sunflowers already. Thick stems, big leaves and growing for sure high in the sky.

The first thing I saw were some big sunflower leaves on the ground. Astonished from where they were coming, a broken sunflower caught my eye. It broke somewhere around 0.75 meter from the ground. The stem partially pealed, like there scrubbed something against it. 

Then at the end of the row another 2. And there 2 more.

Nooooo …

Who has done this?

One of the children? One is gone so 1 left. No, she has to much respect for the work of others. When she should be very angry maybe? But then not in this way. She should break them and then run away. And she was not angry yesterday. 

One of the children from the neighbourhood. Possible but very unlikely …

So there is only left over: a terrible beast.

Wild boar (vildsvin – everzwijn) not as they should have eaten the potatoes. So the only animal we think can have done it is a Roe dear (rådjur – ree).

But the traces are not very much going in the direction of an animal as there aren't hardly traces of biting. 

Also on the ground there is hardly anything to see. Roe deer would for sure have prints on the path as this was not so long ago made and still quite soft. Only some a few collapsed pits in the soft ground. 

Again a mistery to solve.