The area where they've been "aerating" the ground is a little further into the field from where they've been working their way through a large patch of moss, nearly at the spot under the big ash tree where I'd been starting to dig out a "nature pond" some years ago.
As you can see from these old photos above [the small one on the left I took from up above in the big ash tree, I do like climbing!] I had been doing quite well ....... until the builders filled it in with rubble when they started our extension early 2011. I'm planning to have another go at digging out a natural pond, at the very spot where we think there is an underground spring and where Anke and Lane have been digging themselves - this photo shows they've drawn water already:
These photos of Anke & Lane's new activities I took on Thursday 26th, morning, just after letting the bottom 5 out. There must have been a break in the rain judging by the pictures. Looking back towards the duck enclosure I could see that the two girls were out already:
You can see all the sticks of the second fence still leaning against the first one where I abandoned trying to block up the escape holes - both fences were equally full of holes. Lane and Anke are now quite adept at finding their way back in after their field activities, but Captain tends to watch over them from the inside, usually with his two white girls, and when he DOES break out he still has trouble finding his way back in again. Often, at their bedtime, we find him at the little fence where we go into the enclosure, and he dives ravenously into the container with grain before we can shut him in.
Going back towards the house to finish off filling all the water containers I came across the group of 10 just fanning out into the vegetable beds. I'm not the big bad wolf any more, by the way, ever since the introduction of meal worms [Michael and Pine, what HAVE you started!] they come running towards me in expectation, Bless in front!
It must have been a decent day for weather on Thursday because the washing was out and I took a couple of photos of the 10 having a morning snooze. It beats me, by the way, how they choose their spots for a kip, which can be anywhere in the garden; which of them says "right, this is the time for rest, and this is where we lie down" I often wonder.
Catching up on our news, we had a most wonderful gift - yet another! - from Pine and Michael which arrived on Friday morning. They had sifted through all the photos we'd taken during their visit here and arranged their favourites into this glossy, very beautiful book:
The album is a wonderful memento of their happy stay with us. The quality of the print, paper and cover is fantastic, I just want to keep stroking the smooth and shiny leaves!
The four visitors we've had since it arrived have been equally full of praise - and the consensus among us now on the "rat" skeleton hanging in the tree by the brook is that it was a squirrel!
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