My friend Jackie gave me a bag of autumn leaves for the girls as well as bag of greens from the allotment for them. Yesterday afternoon I tipped the autumn leaves in the run for them to scratch through.
As always they approached with caution at first but soon started scratching, pecking and spreading them around. The leaves entertained them all afternoon right up until bedtime.
Toffee and Barley were the first to approach the leaves
Butterscotch, Emerald and Honey also investigate
Toffee and Honey soon have the leaves spread around
Toffee and Honey remained interested even after the leaves had been spread around
Before bedtime the girls have a last scratch in the leaves
They have now spread the leaves over the entire run
What a lot of fun can be had from a bag of leaves. The girls say “Thank you Jackie”.
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My girls love to fling leaves across the garden too. In fact, my dad will collect them in bags for the winter. When we let them out, then we put some leaves down for stepping on and scratching at.
I love how easily pleased they are. They have been rustling in those leaves for days.
It’s a pleasure and I assure you there are more where they came from.
They have had such fun with them and are also still pecking away at the allotment greens.