The Garden

Here are a few shots of the garden last month, including the new water pots - my water lilies saved from the pond infill!  And our alarm clocks here - a pair of v noisy kookaburras!

Modern Game Bantams

These are some of our Modern Game Bantams, they are such personable little birds.
Daisy - a silver birchen - has 6 chickens at the moment.  To keep them safe the family is in a big rabbit hutch up near the house.  Unlike the silkie mums who are very protective of their babies and not keen on sharing them at all, Daisy's little mob have learnt from their mum that 'people are good'.  The chickens are nearly a fortnight old now, and this morning they not only came racing towards me for to get brekky treats - rice and corn - but the literally jumped into my hand as I lowered the spoon into the cage!!

Daisy hatched eggs from several chooks, including Poppy, Vovo and Hetty, seen here with Florenzo (purchased as Florence, but gave the game away by starting to crow!!)

In the garden this week - the 'black' anemones are flowering and just look spanking gorgeous.

Cleaning up the pots I disturbed a moth - very attractive fellow, see:

Peanut and Kiwi

Coco is a Silver Pencilled Wyandotte x Silkie, she's gorgeous, and she knows it!!  She's head chook!!

Here a couple shots of my darling partridge silikes Peanut and Kiwi (my fav), they are bearded silkies, good layers and in their second season.  I have had quite a lot of babies (incubator) from these girls.  Peanut is broody now, sitting on 7 eggs and we are looking forward to hatching day.

Dash

This is Dash, she belongs to my friend Gayle.  A gorgeous little dog, and expert mouse-er!!  I plan to us these pics for a textile art 'pet' challenge, if I ever get my Mac back!!

What a view

Went to visit Karen and Peter on the weekend, this is the view from their lounge room window - brill or what!!

 

New Bird sighting

This morning on the walk I was startled by a crashing in the undergrowth, a large-ish chestnut coloured bird had landed on a branch near the path.  It seemed completely unperturbed, and stayed put as I walked past!

Have now identified it as a Brown Cuckoo Dove, a new bird for my 'list'.