Mr & Mrs Mallard and …

We should have been opening the garden to the public for the National Gardens Scheme today. Current pandemic restrictions make that impossible. Instead we were greeted with a delightful surprise. Every year in May, without fail for at least the last ten years, we are visited by a pair of wild Mallard Ducks. They arrive, […]

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Vegetable dilemma

Every year in the spring a single pair of wild Mallard ducks visit us. Usually their stay is for no more than 2 weeks. We don’t know where they come from or where they leave us for but we’ve become attached to their annual visit. Another sign of spring. This year however they look like […]

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