I drove fifty yards along Mill Road and caught sight of Mrs Wild Mallard Duck leading her ducklings into the field next to the pond. I stopped the car (from where I am typing now) and jumped out. They were hiding in the grass until I disturbed them and ran away through a gap in the hedge towards our pond.
Mother hen is fiercely protective of her “gosling” babies. When I went to shut them in tonight I got too close to one baby and mother flew at me and pecked my hand! The photos below are from yesterday
We’ve never met before but I’m sure we’ll exchange ideas, plants and animals in the months ahead and I liked their recipe ideas for ice cream and sorbet (must get those too) using fruit and honey.
As I fed the animals this morning, early, and opened up the hen houses I heard a loud and intricate bird song coming from the copse adjacent to our far field. Possibly a song thrush. As I type I can still hear its song loud and clear. Any clarification please?
On March 16th 1190 the entire Jewish Community of York was wiped out in a horrific Anti Semitic attack at Clifford Tower – just one of a number of such atrocities that took place across Mediaval England at this time.
One hundred years later, in the reign of Edward I in 1290 all the Jews were expelled from England and were not permitted to return until the time of Oliver Cromwell, 350 years later.
The zoom meeting tonight was addressed by a mediaval historian as well as the chairwoman of the present day Jewish community of York.
