A little project

Just thought I would share a little project I have had on the go, I found this old chair in one of our barns and have finally finished restoring it. It has found a new home in our kitchen!

Bath time

Weekend helpers

Thanks to Mum & Dad who were a great help last weekend, we now have a new bath panel and the ducks have a new bath!

A carpet of spring

The land has been changing so quickly and with all the rain has now unfortunately become a bit of a jungle, but we thought we would share some of the beautiful wild flowers that we have been enjoying through May & beg June.

Red Campion

Speedwell & Bugle

Buttercups

Greater Stitchwort

Welsh Poppies

Herb Robert

Bluebells

Lady's Smock

Hawthorne

Foxglove

The owls have a baby

Whilst looking in the tree where we saw the owl the other day we found not Mr owl, but a big owlet!
so cute ;0)

They're growing up so quickly!

Babs & Julio continue to grow up fast, it will be time to put them outside soon so Steve and I worked hard this weekend to get the ducks quarters in order. They are not quite ready to sleep outside but spend most of the day out there now.

They seemed to like it and today they worked out they could actually get in and out of the water by themselves and so spent most of the day doing just that!

A week of nature

It has been and eventful week here...

Thursday I went to the kitchen to fix lunch to find one of the swallows that is nesting in the barns opposite the house had flown into our house. I managed to grab it eventually and fling him out the door. I guess they are so used to flying in and out of buildings why should our house be any different?!

We have put up a beaded curtain now to hopefully deter wildlife from venturing inside when we have the door open.

Friday I was walking Star and found that the field next door was home now to a few horses who came to say hello.

Today we finally managed to capture the woodpecker on camera...

...the tawny owl that lives in the left barn came out to snooze in the sun.

...we uncovered a couple of toads while clearing the courtyard.

and a little mouse had supper under the bird feeder.