Weds.13th afternoon

I managed to get a few photos of the little waterhens while I was doing some weeding down there, not all four together, but I'm so pleased I got some on camera:

Captain and his girls were asleep, and while they were having a snooze the waterhen parents came to pick up food and fed it to the little ones on the pond:

I left them in peace and went to let the ducklings out again, they love swimming in their "big" blue pond.  Mini Hedda [it's so big now I have a feeling it might be a 'Harold'] had a bit of an experience.  Hot in pursuit of a fly it slipped through the fence -the opening was a little larger than the others.  Of course, it tried to get back through a normal opening and got stuck, poor thing, twice! 

 It gave up then and I lifted it over the top.

I busied myself with weeding, the little ones were content.  But all of a sudden, whether they were feeling too cold or whether voices from the road disturbed them, they all trooped to the ramp and a few of them went half way up it but came down again.  Then they had a second go and went right into the shed.  Obviously things weren't quite right yet as they all came out again.  The third time they went in and stayed in, settling in a corner at the back.  So we put the safety net down and went in for tea!