The ducklings looked cold this morning huddling together on the bank warming up in the morning sun, but at least they survived I saw 2 Kingfishers fly underneath the LC bridge, they were very close together one following the other so I am unsure if one was chasing the other or they were just...
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I didn’t go down the Slea at the weekend so I was very happy to still see 2 ducklings this morning. Tonight is cold so if they survive tonight I don’t think they will succumb to the weather as long as its not really freezing. Mum is not seen with the ducklings any more...
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I think we have lost another 2 ducklings leaving just 2. Yesterday I only saw 3 but thought I would check again today but found only 2 this morning. Its just possible that 1 was hiding somewhere but I am not hopeful. The nights have not been cold lately so that isn’t the reason,...
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Yesterday I was worried all day about the Ducklings because I didn’t go down the Slea and went to Welney to photograph hundreds of swans instead. I wondered if they had survived the very cold night, but today I saw all 4 so they have made it through 2 more nights, this give hope...
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The Ducklings looked cold this morning, they were on the bank all huddled together. The night was cold but this morning there was cloud which meant the sun didn’t come out to warm them up. At least all 4 survived another night but I am a little worried that I didn’t see mum who...
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I was ‘stalked’ today by……. ‘Stifflegs’ the Mallard who cannot paddle very well because he has stiff legs similar to how arthritis would affect them. He is only 1 of 2 ducks I feed on a regular basis (the other one I call ‘One eye’ for obvious reasons). Everytime I looked around ‘Stifflegs’ came...
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All 4 ducklings survived the night but this morning 3 of them, and mum, were on the Slea and the other one was in the mouth of the Old Slea weir. The last couple of times some ducklings have been in the weir, I have left them to their own devises because mum has...
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An extra picture today as I liked the sunlight glinting on the water where our 4 remaining ducklings were paddling… Alan and I were joined by Mel yesterday and walked downstream of Cogglesford Mill, on our way back we were told we looked like a scene from ‘Last of the Summer wine’. I don’t...
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Did the Ducklings survive the coooooold night…. again there were 3 ducklings and mum down the Old Slea weir just as yesterday, again I hoped they would get back to the Slea all on their own. Again I didnt see them actually do it but mum and 3 ducklings got back themselves but it...
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They were down there again, but first I went down the Slea yesterday afternoon and could only find 6 ducklings so it looks like we lost one during the day. To me the most likely reason to lose a duckling during the day is when people feed the ducks and create a mass of...
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