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<\/a><\/p>\nNew life! This week appears to be the main hatching week for many wildfowl, particularly swans. The prolonged cold snap dosen’t appear to have affected many sitting birds’ nests\u00a0as some had feared, and there are some evidently large broods about.<\/p>\n
The coots are the architects of the wildfowl nesters. They will collect every stick,\u00a0 branch or piece of vegetation they can carry as well as acquiring all the human litter they can find, plastic bags, crisp packets, even condoms. All get built into the mound, a giant castle in the water for such a small bird. Sometimes swans even steal the base of coot nests as they make a spacious extension to the foundations.<\/p>\n
They are also fearless and excellent parent birds.<\/p>\n \u00a0 The armada<\/p><\/div>\n All aboard<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n A far cry from rattlechain lagoon. This week has largely been a tarting up exercise as far as the ongoing works go. A walkable circle has now been completed around the edge of the main pool with the completion of earth moving on the East embankment. In fact a number of distinct levels or “circles” have now been achieved.<\/p>\n Bonaparte scrapping the barrel and a man for scale.<\/p><\/div>\n \u00a0Elsewhere this week, I make it week 14 of the French\/Belgian\/Dutch campaign, more action from Goldmember and movement around the lake of the upturned double bed connected at the other end.<\/p>\n \u00a0And races between minimember and Gullit around the lake<\/p>\n You certainly could not get lost in the trees anymore around the lake and there is a plan behind this designed by commerce and not nature. The life of this tip is by no means finished – mark my words they are prophecy of the things to come.<\/p>\n “ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE”<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 New life! This week appears to be the main hatching week for many wildfowl, particularly swans. The prolonged cold snap dosen’t appear to have affected many sitting birds’ nests\u00a0as some had feared, and there are some evidently large … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>