A Story From Lori
Buzz went up on the island first. Bella hung in the water with cygnets, then went up. We all waited for the cyynets to follow their parents up. They did not. Buzz comes over, looks, (he is the one out in front), comes back down to the water, Bella follows, they go downstream. I really thought the little ones would climb up too. They’ll find a more suitable place, it was a steep incline and perhaps not do-able. A not good parent would have bitten them in the butt and scolded them and shoved them on up there. They are excellent parents. Ok, let’s find a different vantage point, better to your liking (they are, after all, outnumbered, lol). It all happened very quickly, as soon as Bella and Buzz realized their children weren’t going to climb up there, they came down.
I love that there are little islands in the much larger pond, and I’m sure they enjoy the safety. At William’s Grist Mill Pond, one of the things I really didn’t like about it, (besides the turtles and the Water Chestnut scum), was there was no safe place for them to come out of the water. Surrounded by woods on all sides, and coyotes lurking…
Oh, here they are, off to look for another entry way:
On the way through the field (the grass is getting very long) I found a family of geese with goslings. It’s not easy for them, either. The Heron has been stalking, but I didn’t see them today (there were 3. Oy).
While I’m here, here are a couple more from this morning:
