Boundary Brook is one of the amazing green corridors in Oxford where, despite being metres away from a huge hospital, you could easily believe you are in the middle of the countryside. There is excellent history about the brook on the descriptions of other caches along here so I will share a story about this cache instead.
An owl walks into a library first thing in the morning, takes a book to the counter, and taps on it repeatedly with it's beak. The librarian can't believe it... does the owl want to borrow a book? In the end she decides owls are meant to be smart birds so helps the owl put the book under it's wing and it leaves.
An hour later she can't believe it... the owl is back with the book, but this time asks to borrow three books. Well, of course the librarian wants to help this extraordinary bird, so helps tuck the three books under it's wing.
Just before the librarian is about to have lunch - the bird is back with the three books. This time the owl asks for six books. The librarian of course obliges, but she has to see how the owl is reading books so quickly.
So she follows the owl back and hides behind a fallen tree at Boundary Brook. She sees the owl return home... to a frog with an bandaged leg it is clearly nursing back to health.
The owl shows the frog the six books she's carried back from the library.
"READ IT! READ IT! READ IT! READ IT! READ IT! READ IT!"
Sick of ungrateful frogs, the owl is now looking after this cache instead.
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I can't promise a frog but there is plentiful wildlife along the brook including very tame birds and exceptionaly fat squirrels. Log and pencil provided but no room for swaps or trackables.