Got a surprise this morning when I stood up from sorting files to make my elevenses cup of coffee, 2 beasts in the garden by the side of the garage! By the time I got the camera they'd moved on into the orchard:
Bruce from the farm next door came pretty quick after my phone call and drove them back through the ditch near the style. I didn't know they'd broken through there, the previous invasions had come from further up the field. I'm not precious about the garden, I like it fairly relaxed, what bothers me most about these "invasions" are the very deep holes these great beasts create which are difficult to fill in, and remembering that Dotty had her leg broken when stuck in a hole with the drakes fighting on top of her ....
I still had the camera handy after the bullock invasion when, very obligingly, the ducks came running up to see if there was anything left in the breakfast bowls.
Quick catch-up on names [just in case you're wondering :-)]
Photo left: Two black drakes on left, Jay and Tuts[with white bits], Caramel top right, Winnie middle right and drake Ben below.
Photo right: from the left, Tuts [hidden by shrubbery], Jay and Winnie [with backs to camera], Mocca and Caramel.
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Two days ago I planted the last of the 100 hazel hedging plants, 11 didn't fit in along the line of the old fence they replace and I planted them in Dotty's little realm where she benefited from some of the worms I dug up!
The two grey concrete posts at the top I won't even attempt to shift, I shall paint them deep brown to match the trunks of neighbours' Leylandii [which I have to cut back severely yet on my side]. Two further fence posts I couldn't remove I hope to get out with some help in the near future. The black cabling you can see is my neighbours', as is the framed netting bottom left of the picture on the right.
When I was still planting hazel I suddenly saw, right in the middle of a patch of soil, what looked like a bundle of feathers. After I'd fetched the camera the feathers flew off and landed where I've put the white arrow in the photo on the left below. It looked like a robin or sparrow, and when I went closer after I'd taken the picture on the right from a distance the bird moved underneath the pile of broken fence panels near it. I never saw it again. I hope it got better after a rest if it was injured.
Last picture in today's blog post was taken through the kitchen window, ducks on snail hunt at the back of the house!
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