• Many more visits to the pond yield some fascinating photographs
  • Liz's brother, Graham comes down on his birthday to visit
  • Mark, Kerry and Wren visit
  • Jack has an operation
  • Suki declines her basket
  • We admire the clouds over the pond
  • Bobs moves into Down's House and we visit her there
     
Two baby robins
     
 
Dandelion seed-head   A baby coot
     
Feeding time!
     
 
Feeding time!   Butterfly
     
 
Suki   Raven
     
 
Bob and Liz in our conservatory   Squirrel
     
Bobs, Liz, Wren and Kerry
     
 
Graham - with his birthday cake   The three siblings with Bobs: Liz, Graham and Chris
     
 
A rare treat - moorhens and normally very shy   The family of coots
     
The family of Egyptian Geese
 
 
A busy bee on a dandelion   Poor Jack having to wear a collar after a cyst was removed
     
 
Many Egyptian geese are not shy   A dandelion seed head
     
 
A woodpecker   Many Egyptian geese are not shy
     
The family of Egyptian Geese
     
 
A jay   Whose egg is this? Click for more information
     
Suki still won't sleep in her basket
     
 
Close up of an Egyptian goose   Spotted just outside the heath, apparently no-one was hurt
     
It was good to see the tree in leaf again
     
 
A close up of feathers on an Egyptian goose   Can pigeons read?
     
Wonderful skies over the pond
     
 
    A Canada gosling
     
Egyptian geese babies
     
 
Canada geese family   Female mallard
     
Threatening skies over the pond
     
 
    At last - a cygnet! There were more but they all died
     
 
Harvey   Sheila joined us one day!
     
Clouds are wonderful things!
     
 
A cute squirrel   The cygnet is getting bigger!
     
     
 
11 May: Bobs moves into Down's House   We have to take Covid tests and wear PPE while we're there!
Three Khaki Campbells - there were four, and later there were only two!
     

A handful of mallard chicks - we escorted them back into the pond!
 
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