One of the best things about the museum is its position in the castle grounds. Not only are there the picturesque ruins of the 13th century castle and the Victorian garden maintained by volunteers from the Local History Society, but also the surrounding scenery and the wildlife that shares it.
On a good day one may see buzzards, kestrels and one of the pair of red kites. Sand martins nest in the banks of the Usk and thrushes and blackbirds nest in the ruins. The grounds also play host to a thriving gang of moles whose hills stud the grass, making life difficult for the mowers, but we forgive them for it, basically, for being small and furry.
The squirrels are more obvious and much more bold. They are free booting bandits, as happy raiding the litter bins as gutting the pine cones and they love to sun bathe on the roof of the old part of the museum. We can see them from the upper floors of the keep. Squirrels have startlingly white stomachs when exposed to the noon sun!
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