Hello and Welcome to Country Garden UK
I’m Gillian. I’m the blog author and photographer.
This is the diary of our country garden in England.
Hello and Welcome to Country Garden UK
I’m Gillian. I’m the blog author and photographer.
This is the diary of our country garden in England.
Every year in April some of the local wild Mallard ducks choose a spot in our garden to lay their eggs. This year a lovely white duck and her sister nested side by side in the foliage under the oak tree right in front of my garden studio. I watched them sitting tight on their eggs for a few weeks. It seems that something else was watching them too…
I like observe what’s going on in the garden. A few minutes sitting outside my garden studio opens up another world.
I’ve found that if I sit very still the wildlife just carries on as usual with the important business of finding food or a nice new home. Yesterday I was enjoying a lovely cup of fresh coffee when I heard an insistent rustling nearby.
Yay. We have our first family of ducklings for 2013.
The ducks are wild but visit us every day for food and a dip in our pond. They have learned over the years that this is a good place to raise their ducklings.