What you see here is a very unflattering pile of sticks, leaves, and other sorts of plant and biodegradable matter - or in other words, a compost pile. Even if it’s not very impressive on the surface, however, looks can be deceiving, and I personally think there’s a few interesting ways in which it ties into animal hospitality. For one, all of the leaf litter and branches can give small animals like mice a place to make nests and such. There’s also bugs that might subsist off of the leaves in the pile, or off of any other plant matter there too. These facts might not sound very outstanding…