We have a pond in our backyard, which makes for great education and entertainment. We have Blue Heron...Ducks.....lots of tadpoles, frogs and turtles, and of course, geese (the date is wrong...resetting the date on the camera after charging the battery doesn't always happen).
This Spring, we have two "families" of geese. I have to say, it has been adorable and interesting watching them. One family has seven babies. The parents stay on either end of the babies, with the babies protectively in the middle. When they feed, bathe, or rest, one or the other parent is always watching for the "enemy", which in this case is a large eagle in the woods near the pond. Did you know geese mate for life? If you shoot a goose, you have widowed it's mate. This family of geese is quite simply the way things should be.......always protecting, always loving, always together. All of us watch the geese on a daily basis, and I'm proud to say my husband is the one I catch looking out the window the most, counting "one, two...seven! Ok, good they're all still alive".
We also have a Robin's nest in the kids outside playhouse. Each day, the kids come in and report that there is another new blue egg in the nest. I had forgotten that birds don't lay their eggs all at one time. This has been exciting for the kids, and I hope the mama bird doesn't abandon the nest with all the kids coming to peer in at the eggs. The mama bird does come around and chirp very loudly at the kids when they are in the playhouse. The kids know enough not to touch it, but we'll see how it all turns out. It would be great to see some baby birds in there.
The Blue Herons are fantastic to watch in motion. My son sees them flying over the house daily, back and forth from their pond to their nests in the woods. They are amazing creatures.
That's our spring out in the country....how is it in your backyard?
This Spring, we have two "families" of geese. I have to say, it has been adorable and interesting watching them. One family has seven babies. The parents stay on either end of the babies, with the babies protectively in the middle. When they feed, bathe, or rest, one or the other parent is always watching for the "enemy", which in this case is a large eagle in the woods near the pond. Did you know geese mate for life? If you shoot a goose, you have widowed it's mate. This family of geese is quite simply the way things should be.......always protecting, always loving, always together. All of us watch the geese on a daily basis, and I'm proud to say my husband is the one I catch looking out the window the most, counting "one, two...seven! Ok, good they're all still alive".
We also have a Robin's nest in the kids outside playhouse. Each day, the kids come in and report that there is another new blue egg in the nest. I had forgotten that birds don't lay their eggs all at one time. This has been exciting for the kids, and I hope the mama bird doesn't abandon the nest with all the kids coming to peer in at the eggs. The mama bird does come around and chirp very loudly at the kids when they are in the playhouse. The kids know enough not to touch it, but we'll see how it all turns out. It would be great to see some baby birds in there.
The Blue Herons are fantastic to watch in motion. My son sees them flying over the house daily, back and forth from their pond to their nests in the woods. They are amazing creatures.
That's our spring out in the country....how is it in your backyard?
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