I Knew I Was Missing Something...

You have some great stories, Mummymo. I really enjoy reading them, but tractors, as mums? Wooooooo, steady! lol.

I think some mothers could learn a lesson in protecting their kids from these geese, what do you think? I had forgotten to tell you about my Great Uncle in the same area as I talked about before! He was a fisherman and lived in a large wooden hut on the shores of Lady Bay, he had a duck and a goose that adopted him! They stayed there for years and were almost like brothers. Well there used to be two tractors , one at either end of the beach and at certain times of the day they would move from one to the other, my great uncle could tell you to within 5 seconds when they would be moving and used to joke that they thought the tractors were their mum and dad! These 2 though would never have attacked anyone, unless they were a danger to my Great Uncle or to the tractors! lol xxx

Yeah I know but to be fair this was my Great Uncle's theory not mine and we have to be sympathetic as he lived in a wooden shed on the edge of the sea about 6 miles from any neighbours and his only form of transport was boat, bicycle or tractor! lol xxx

Nope she said it was for not saving him but I guess that it did not help that I was laughing well he was horrible and it was about time he got payback lol

Well, yes... there is that to it I suppose. Things come back on wrongdoers. How you could have saved him from a goose though, I don't know.

LOL... I don't know what you could have done about the goose chasing your brother, Gabs. It would have turned on you! It was probably more your laughing that got you the hiding. lol. Take care, my friend and Brightest Blessings.

oh lol, I don't suppose it was, in the dark lololol. We used to go to a little holiday camp in Dawlish, where there are black swans, and we were lucky one year to have a chalet where the river ran right behind it. There were possibly 100 little ducklings with their parents. They were much nicer than an alarm clock but my Dad didn't appreciate two kids being woken up and wanting to feed the ducks at 5am lololol. Maybe if they had been geese he would have got some peace lol.

I used to go to Butlins in Minehead almost every year when the grandchildren were small,and there were loads of geese there. They'd just file across the roadway with their goslings in a line behind them. lol. All the time in the world! They're nice, but the green mess they made around the accomodation wasn't very funny in the dark. :-p

Isn't that what holidays are all about, getting up early and going to bed late? :-)

we have tried to reseed the lawn and we had about 10 doves on lawn last night they kept all other birds run off lol and I love to watch the humming birds the flit around so fast and reall are so small ya have to look hard sometimes to see them .

Lol at the doves. As for the humming birds, yes, I know how tiny they are... I've seen them on TV. Their wings move soooo fast too!

D'you know... I haven't seen a wren in my garden for ages. I've seen a couple in the woods and hedgerows but they seem to have disappeared from the garden. You certainly seem to have a lot to look forward to in yours, especially with the humming bird, which are not native of Britain. :-( Have a great day, may friend. Brightest Blessings.

To be honest, Deeeky, the only part of nature I've seen a change in, (apart from trees blown down in the hurricane), is the decrease in the number of rabbits. Oh, there are still a lot of them, but you know when they have mixemetosis, because for one, they don't hop away, and for another, their eyes are starey. Other than that, I don't see much of a change in the countryside. I grew up in Burgess Hill when it was a very small town, and where I live now, I still see the badgers, deer, rabbits, swans, geese, ducks, hedgehogs, foxes, primroses, bluebells and all the other wild flowers in abundance, in the springtime. There's a village down a little lane off the A272 westbound road, called Lurgashall. I love to go there.. this place and the people who live there are like something out of Saxon times. They hunt, sell the results of their hunt; foxhunt, as they do here; there are trappers; iron forgers; horse shoers; tanners; you name it... then they all congregate in this very basic, little village pub and talk about their day's work... yes, it's their living! What a life! It far beats going in to the office, working an eight-hour day sitting at a desk, then going home, for a bit of freedom from the rat race. I would love that kind of life, but alas... all the people there have stayed over generations, and although welcomed to the pub, or the village, one would never be welcomed as a villager, from outside. It's an amazing place, that's for sure. I don't think technology is going to change much in our lifetime, nor the lifetimes of our children, but who knows what will happen in our grandchildrens' lifetimes?

Technology is advancing so much that we are finding out more of our animal friends habits due to the miniscle cameras in thier habitats and the BBC is in the forefront as we are keeping twenty four hour watch on our wild life. Thier is many a poacher being stopped from stealing eggs from ever decreasing wild life just for thier collecting habits.

I love swans too,...couldn't resist showing off one of my swan photos either...swans and geese are in the same family species of birds...

Really? The same species... that's something else I've learned today. Thank you my friend. :-)

Yes I do have a few close neighbours, because I live right in the heart of the village, opposite the Post Office, but at the bottom of the garden, there is a field of sheep... well, normally sheep, but nothing in there at the moment, and it's full of buttercups. lol. There are lots of trees and conservation areas around, so we're very countrified. At the bottom of the street, if you cross the main road, there are field upon field, interspersed with woods, the mill ponds.. even an old Roman road. The village used to forge iron many, many years ago, and the oldest part of the church is Saxon. I love it here... there's lots of space, and lots of wildlife, the like of which I never saw before I moved here.

I like the way the geese seem to fly in formation... a fascinating sight, as the honk their way across the sky. Have a great day my friend... and a great weekend too. Brightest Blessings.