Out for a morning walk, seven goslings and their parents stroll along the bank of the Main in Frankfurt, #Germany

Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

#photography
#birds
#geese
#goslings

Image of the Day at https://rustonhouse.org.uk is a blurry one taken of a #Stoat seen from our bedroom window back in October 2013.

However, today's announcement can be seen on the What's New page
https://rustonhouse.org.uk/whatsnew.php
where it reports I've just uploaded 13 new pages containing the stories behind some 70 images captured between January and May 2016.

They show our #treehouse, #daffodils, #Canada #geese fighting for possession of our #lake, a newly planted #dogrose #hedge, newly hatched #goslings, that then go missing, the #dinghy we gave away and a visiting family of #swans.

Yes I'm 10 years out of date on the site recording what we saw around at our old #home and there's a lot more still to come.

Which brings me back to this year's #nesting.
Eggs always hatch by mid-late May.
I watch daily, walk slowly to Mother Goose on #nest. I believe it's still Gail, but last year bird flu affected Gordon and she may have a new mate.

STRIKE A POSE! #VOGUE
Updates soon
#TheEnd

#Thread #Birds #Goslings #Geese #Storytime

One year, something disturbed an egg, it rolled out of the nest & she hatched an odd number that year.
Her goslings have had their own nests; last count, a few years back, there were 52 in one flock and 35 in another.

They go elsewhere when grown. Thankfully.

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