Where has our pond gone?

We ducks have been getting increasingly concerned that water has been "evaporating" at an alarming pace on the top pond for the last couple of weeks so we were relieved to see maintenance manager Mick in his waders on Monday coming into the pond to check it out.


We have been doing our own "research" - that is scratching around at the sides of the pond and, only recently, found a bit of a hole - we all worked at it pretty diligently to expose it nicely for him to see - he did not seem that pleased though, and has now made plans to fill it in with clay later this week, there is gratitude for you!   He says that there is a much bigger job needed as the ponds need dredging and rebuilding as there is significant errosion, but this will have to wait until October - ohh what joy, plenty of mud to play in!

He also had his waders on for another reason it transpired .... the new ducklings had had their second outing out and were swimming on the bottom pond. They had gone into the thick bullrushes and were under attack from a couple of rather aggressive moorhens. Happily all ducklings survived and are once again back in their pen.

Baby Barn Owls at Arden Falconry

Plenty of children about at the moment feeding us - not doing my diet much good but very tasty!  They are also visiting the new baby barn owls at Arden Falconry which are growing fast (but are still at that very ugly stage!).  Some of them, the children that is, are also doing pottery short classes with Sophia Binney which are good fun. 

 

Final news for this Blog - we thought we had the FBI here last week - the carpark had 3 black transit vans parked up early one evening - it tuned out that Chocolate Deli were installing some airconditioning equipment, as the heat was stopping the chocolate setting properly - it is "well cool" in their unit now!