Mrs Noisy came down from her nest under the bonfire pile in the field on the 5th July with her new brood - two tiny ducklings. They are amazingly strong, as they cannot be more than 24 hours hatched. Mrs N. has lived up to her name ever since, quacking loudly at anyone who comes at all near her brood.
They were swimming in the pond almost immediately, having tried out the possibilities of the food bowl first. They are, of course much bigger by now!
and here is a picture of the first two A-frames on the back porch put in place. The fourth will go where the gutter is at the moment, and the front one will not have an A-bar, but a vertical central post, and be glazed on either side. We have used the old oak roofing beams that Claude gave us (for firewood) that came off the old roof of his house in Kermarec. They have some really wild and woolly shapes!
We are also hoping to be able to use two existing DGUs from a window we had spare, to put into the roof to give some more light. Just need to work out how to fit them so they are weatherproof!
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