Snails & rats.

When closing the back door last night, there were a couple of snails on the back step and one of them had a funny shaped shell, but it seemed happy enough.
My sister said that she had a black cap in her garden and it was feeding it's chicks. She lives near the woods and she said that she gets all sorts of birds in her garden. She had jays, woodpeckers, wrens. .
But at the moment she is having problems with rats, not a big problem at the moment, she keeping an eye on it, so are her cats.