5 mins in between packing to write this. End of an Era !!!! - Loved the house for the last 13 years - time to move on.
I haven't mentioned we acquired 6 ducks a couple of weeks ago, they were from a friend who had incubated eggs and we got them as ducklings at around 4 weeks. In theory it was 3 Runner Ducks and 3 Call Ducks. The Call Ducks have been named Coconut, Kiwi and Papaya (by Hannah) and the Runner Ducks were called Pingu and Ibis by me, and lastly Mike was incarnated by Adie ! - photos will follow once my Camera is unpacked.
It turns out that one of the Call Ducks (Kiwi) looks like a proper Call Duck. Papaya is a little on the large size , and Coconut has more than a touch of Mallard. Ironically Mike is the closest to a Runner, whereas Pingu looks somewhere in-between Muscovy and Goose, and Ibis is an in-between Runner and something else (but still Duck).
A Lesser Spotted Woodpecker has been heard calling twice in the last 3 days very close to the garden although remaining invisible. Another Red Kite sailed over the garden yesterday and a Lesser Whitethroat has been heard around the garden the last few mornings and a visiting Green Woodpecker hs been busily extracting ants. More unusual, a singing Skylark over the field and a Yellowhammer singing from the trees next to the house has given a very rural feel to this ending of an era.
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