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Mad time of year
Illegal angling hook This post should have appeared two weeks ago, but didn’t due to a technical hitch getting it off my ipad! Apologies…. On Tuesday evening I collected the boys from school, and as...
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May day
Image ‘pinched;’ from deafpagancrossroads.com I have been revisiting a post I wrote this time last year about May Day and it’s significance: A cultural mayday. Reading it now, I’m struck by how quickly...
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A Wild Life on the River
Last week the black swans surprised us all. Despite the cold snap, they turned up with two little ones. For boaters (here at least) this is an excitement – the birds feel like pets. They are our...
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Fairy threads
Icicles – hung there by fairies? This morning my walk alongside the Thames was witness, as it has been for the last few days, to small waves, created by the wind, lapping the river bank. This is...
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Where we’re at
We watched last year as the swans, who worked so hard, failed to hatch their eggs. For me it was heartbreaking watching the lovely mother swan so reluctant to leave her eggs. They must have got too...
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Posts like buses
Our swans eggs still haven’t hatched, and are now two weeks over. The male keeps trying to nudge the female off the nest, and we are beginning to suspect that the eggs got too cold in the recent snap…....
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Cute video: ‘chick-o time’
A fellow boater created this rather sweet video of what the birds are up to. I’ve been trying to capture pictures of the swallows and swifts, who disappeared for a day or two, but seem to be back now...
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Quick update
So if it’s the swans that float your boat, mum’s managed to keep five of her beautiful eggs safe. One was taken from the nest and dropped – we think there are mink in the area. On an equally sad note,...
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Swans
Our swans, who last year managed to hatch five, of whom two survived, laid their eggs – one a day for a week. Initially we thought she was probably sore and that’s why she wasn’t incubating her eggs,...
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Coots 1 – Boater 0
You know I mentioned the coots? One boat owner’s not going to be too pleased! Filed under: Closer to nature Tagged: wildlife
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