Its That Time of Year

I have been up to the pond several times this week and each day there has been a new family appearing. We have Goslings, ducklings and moorhen chicks.I expect next week the first cygnets might appear.

The Young Ones

It is still very warm in the Forest and today after walking the dogs early we took a ride through the forest stopping off at the ponds along the way. We Now have two families of Canada geese on Cadmans pond.Goslings are so cute. The little ducklings were everywhere , lost count of the number of families we had, they are several different ages now.
By the side of the road we came across some sweet looking calves.Calves are so pretty and yet they seem to lose it as theygrow up.
Down on Hatchetts pond the 7 little cycgnets are all doing well. There is a second pair of swans,at the far end of the pond but no sign of cygnets there yet.
There are plenty of foals now on the forest and again we have different ages. The earlier foals are about 6 weeks old now, but they will continue to appear until September.

Pond Update

After our walk this morning we drove along to Hatchetts pond and got our first sighting of the swan family. Mr and Mrs Swan have seven little cygnets. Whilst we were watching them we saw something flapping around in the water and the parent swans hissing and trying to catch something. I wonder if a big pike was after the little ones.
It was such a beautiful day this afternoon we went to Eyeworth pond no little mandarins yet but there was a small family of ducklings. We couldn't tempt any birds down with our seed so we moved on to Cadmans Pond and found Mr and Mrs Canada Goose had five little goslings. There were also several duck families.

A small foal at pigbush
Cockchafer beetle (maybug)
Swan family at Hatchets Pond
Little Goslings at Cadmans Pond and some of the ducklings

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Goslings

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Goslings

Goslings on the water

Young Goslings sunbathe