Foxglove
"WANT to see how the ducks are coming on?" asked the gamekeeper as we finished our coffee.
It was quite a way to the pond from his cottage so we drove very slowly and let the dogs follow 'to wheel', which meant that if anything that should be flushed or chased made its presence known we would have the equipment to do so.
We parked at the top of the hill and disembarked so that we could watch the pond without its inhabitants seeing us.
Ten days previously, in driving rain, we had arrived at first light with the crates of young ducks.
Caught up at the rearing field the previous night, they had been driven across to their new home early so they would have the maximum hours of daylight in which to settle.
For full feature see West Sussex Gazette July 16
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15 July 2008 10:02
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