Another Zoo Day

More from one of my trips to our local Zoo..............................................

Back Again

Hello everyone sorry for not putting up anything for the last few days but as a lot of you know my circumstances are difficult at the moment...............
So in the Garden - another of the Ducks Chantelle has  had her chicks hatch, she started with eight as did Pretty unfortunately they both only have five left as our friend the Grey Heron is getting to them and perhaps the odd Magpie and Jay.



Mum taking her babies to the pond for the first time



Wow how can you eat something that big



Mum takes these babies back to the nest in front of our house ever night



Just to show you how our vines are doing

  The Bird of the Day is for my friend Kenny and is not a bird but a moth - The Humming Bird Moth



Non of the shots are great but the colours are nice.........




After lettuce comes bread

Today you will be happy to know that all seven are still around and getting bigger, faster and learning all the time.

Today we introduced bread and mum did not need to show them what to do they just got stuck in - they were a bit like the Griffins with that chunk of meat.



Although mum is still really hungry after weeks without food she still lets them eat first





possibly even more pretty than mum





of course the fish are constantly trying to get the bread also

sometimes it can look strange when the babies are lifted up in the air 



The fish wins and the bread disappears under the water

More of the chicks

Unfortunately mother nature has taken her toll - this morning eight became seven, probably one of the herons found them ( last year we lost a whole brood in three days ). However they have had a good day around the pond and had a walk to the feed bowl and jumped into that too and helped themselves.......................





Right says mum this it how you eat the lettuce that John throws in for us if it is to big I will make it smaller for you



 

 


the lesson finished they get stuck innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn





Two of them seem to stick  like glue to mum - no bad thing


 

 



If mum puts her head under the water then so do I



NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

The succulents are now starting to flower




Our Tiger



More New Arrivals

Yesterday Pretty the ducks eggs started to hatch she stayed in hiding until the early hours when she moved them down to the pond.....................................



The proud mum with her little ones

one of the little Bobbits - at this age they are unable to dive
so are very vulnerable to all the predators until they loose the fluff.




and there off -  its hard to keep control of them all because they are so inquisitive



she keeps them same on an island on the pond under a tree..............



Today's Bird of the Day

 

Stonechat




Vultures

As most of you know it was my birthday last week and I was taken to the zoo.............having taken in excess of a thousand images it will take some time to go through them to look for any good ones.

The following are Griffin and Black Vultures etc.



This along with the next selection are taken at feeding time, they are not the best at sharing and are very messy





Black Vulture



Griffin



Red Headed



 



Griffin wing feathers

 




I have finished with the guy we started with..............