For years now the fleece gets nibbled from our saddle pads. We try to keep them in bags or boxes but it's hard when the pads are all sweaty and you need to leave them out for a day or two. We'd blamed the mice. And then I come across this bird's nest in the brush. Lined with fleece!
What, the birds have been picking our fleece?! They come in through the windows at dawn? Stranger things happen! From where I stood it could have been milkweed. I couldn't tell.
So I picked a (generous..) pinch out and...sure enough, it's nice cushy (*real* sheepskin) fleece!
I went back to get a better picture of this nest and...
Apparently this ambitious little mouse had moved in to the abandoned bird's nest. And fluffed it all up with fleece!
This nest is a good 70 or 80 yards from the barn. This mouse really worked its butt off fluffing up that nest. I felt pretty bad having messed up his (or her) little nest. What's done is done, as they say. So I carefully put the fleece back near the nest. I scared the mouse and he took off.
The next day I saw the fleece was all gathered up and tucked back into the nest. I didn't disturb this little mouse too much after all.
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