Mr Pu has a scratch

Having not seen Pu for a for a few days since the pond had frozen over I presumed he had left his outdoor nest and moved to semi hibernate in one of the tunnels his predecessors had made in the bank. He is now living in the tunnels but today he came out to say hello.

He has very poor vision and hearing so swam around the hole in the ice the ducks have kept to swim in and stay safe, then out he popped or should I say crawled, digging his long sharp nails into the ice as you can see.

Although the ducks are wary of Mr Pu and get out of his way they are happy for him to be close as he is no real threat.

 

Then he stopped and had a scratch and the look on his face says it all - plus it gives us a chance to see his orange teeth and very human like hands that are in fact feet. In this shot you can't see the webbing between the toes ( unlike the one below ) making them look like hands with finger nails, but of course we would not say this if he was not an albino giving this pink colour as the normal browny- grey would look far from human.   

Then one quick sniff and he was back in the water and away into a tunnel.

Here one of our female blackbirds gets the berries from one of our Pyracantha.

Then it's oops were did that branch go.............

and below is one of my better shots of a Blackbird poo show the colour of the berries they have eaten; some very red some orange and some yellow, this one is a mixture of yellow and orange - now ain't that interesting. 

Here are two shots of one of our very timid Moorhens who only come out when they think you have gone away after feeding the ducks. One of the reasons we don't see them much is that they hide, perching in our fir trees where they are very hard to find as you can see below.