Baby Balloon

 The dogs and I thought we would go to a local nature reserve just up the hill called Pé de  JoJo

but as we were nearing the aerodrome that adjoins the reserve parking we saw these.

Here you can see the filling station for the local small aircraft - as opposed to balloons that use gas. In the next shot of this smaller one-man version, the gas tanks are behind him and the burner above.

  An update on the Brent Geese - these are pale-bellied ones who fly at night so the ones here had only just set off to get their bearings via the sun then use the moon and stars - they are heading slowly towards Siberia and aiming to be there for the breeding season, they stop a lot on the way sometimes for a few days at a time and are in no real hurry. Happy and safe flying..........to these and the ones we saw and heard the next night honking to each other as they flew over in the pitch dark constantly communicating with each other. 

Finally here is Mr Pu eating his first bread he has been watching the ducks and liked what he tried,

after all he is a vegetarian so maybe I will make him lettuce sandwiches in the summer. I will show you more of Pu and his bread another time. I am not sure what has happened to his ear but I would say he caught it on the brambles around the pond.

I know the last video was not visible to everyone for some reason so here goes again......