As I looked out of the kitchen window this morning I saw a huge crow alight on the roof of the goose house.  Too late I realized that we had forgotten to shut the goose house door and by the time I had reached the pond the damage was done.  One egg shattered and eaten and another had its yolk spilled on the straw.  Mr Gander was hissing behind the wire fencing in the vineyard and one of his mates was sitting, unmoving, on her nest in the duck house.