The birds are still indoors until DEFRA allows them out (dependent on cases of avian flu). All the birds are keen to be out in the fresh air and mixing again – sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
News from the Silkie house
Delicate plum blossom
A friend asked, “How do the geese keep themselves so clean and white?” Here’s how
Greedy mothers try to reach the “lamb creep food”!
Mabel shows that she can climb – it’s not just Nigel who is inquisitive
Jeremy has bought himself a useful unbirthday present- a seed propagator. He planted tomato seeds last Sunday and they are already growing
Sunday playtime
They call it “creep” for obvious reasons
The big sheep eat the large pellets and the lambs put their heads through the fence and eat the small pellets (they creep along the boundary to outwit their mothers – it works).
Tiny but pretty
Common whitlow grass (also known as spring Draba and lots of other names).
Back home I spent an hour weeding one of the rhubarb patches with a fork. One more to go and some hand weeding to be done.
Three goats, two bowls, one cat
Little Meghan has horns and bullies her Aunty Wisp (who doesn’t have horns) but she doesn’t bully her mother Willow
Blue tits hard at working
Building their nest in the box in the pergola.
