duckhunt in dorset

I spent some of today at the casa de mi madre meeting the latest new arrivals. The three baby ducklings from before (a photo of two you have seen before - the brown one and the white one with the paler head) have now grown to almost full-size. They were having their usual fun and games on their widdle pond and will be ready for the big pond soon.

My favourite duck also gave us a LOLcat wave! It’s like he’s saying: “Oh, hai!! Kthanxbye!”

But there are also some new ducklings and they are so cute you would never want to eat them! Here are my favourite photos from the afternoon.

They are such funny little animals, so jumpy but so inquisitive. I sat with them for about ten minutes and they were up at the door in no time trying to get out and then leaping away like scared little geese (er, ducks) if I batted them back into their duck house.

We moved them from their duckhouse into a new duckpen after these photos were taken. We had to pick them up to do this, and the bigger of the two yellow ones had me creased in two in hysterics because he was having NONE of it! The others all scrabbled around and made a cheepy fuss, but were caught without too much palava, but this little one literally ran rings around me for five minutes. He figured that if he ran around me so that I was having to turn circles backwards, that I was slower than he was and this game kept us going until I was laughing so hard that my mum had to take over. She got him without any trouble, but not so much fun. I have a little video of them too, so I will see about uploading it if I get a chance.