Saturday, November 18, 2006

back at last


After months away from blogging about the birds I can report no new fatalities. Some noisy additions over the summer - 2 white female call ducks given by a friend (thanks Gill, but soooooooooo noisy), and 5 bantam chicks, now full grown. The chicks live up a tree at night which works well in the winter but will not work in summer when they get up too early and drop straight into a fox maw. Of course the law of the universe ran true - 2 hens and 3 cockerels! As Ellie would say "how useless is that!" Now while I was away for a few days the buff pekin who hatched the last clutch has decided this is the perfect time for brooding more eggs - she stole 2 from the splash bantam I think, and is now tight to the nest and has done 13 days so far. I'll keep you all posted!