Watch the Birdies!

Now we all know that Stuart Fletcher from Top Glass is a bit of a golfer - have often heard it said that 'he is on a course' when he is not in the glass blowing unit...but now he has taken his enthusiasm to a new level he has his own 'Birdie Tree' out the front of the Jinney Ring. (Have to say that chances of this many 'birdies' are somewhat slim from what we 'duckies' hear!!)

'Birdie' Tree - changing the season.

Talking of trees - we also had a lovely gift endowed for our new Memory Tree - Steve Allen, who is part of first family to put up their memory leaves, is a photographer and very kindly made us a proper sign - this is now up next to the tree, thank you Steve it has smartened up the garden beautifully. Steve is an equestrian photographer and you can really tell he loves horses when you look at his pictures - we have told Wally and Jonah, the horses in the field next to us that they need to lose some weight and tidy themselves up before they could look this good - Wally just rolled in the mud again!

Thanks Steve

Out on the pond the new ducklings were released out of their pen for their first swim on Monday - since then they have been getting more confident every day and yesterday a whole group of them got out of the netted area onto the big pond - fortunately all but one realized that they needed to go back in to be fed.  The remaining duckling was out til 10 o'clock but finally worked out how to get in again so all was well.

First week out and about.

 We have also notices that Mick has spoiled our dining experience in the garden this week - he has put some green fencing over the willow hedge - darn shame it was so tasty for us!

That is about it for this week - weather yesterday was 'good for ducks' but not people but was better today so hopefully summer is around the corner!