Kaiser, the lone gosling, and his eighteen duckling chums are now out in the big wide grassy world.

Here is a seldom photographed picture of a wrench feeding her young

I am pessimistic (or is it realistic?). I fear that when this is but a short way in the past those who have been praised as heroes for putting their lives on the line, and in too many cases losing them, will again be treated as dispensable shit by the privileged and powerful. After all it's only a s...

"In many cultures, including Native American tribes, people named the full moons throughout the year as a way to keep track of time. So although April's full moon is known as the Pink Moon, don't expect it to look particularly pink! It's named after pink flowers called wild ground phlox, which ...

Well the ducklings have hatched and are now in the brooder with Kaiser, the lonely gosling.

"I told them I was lonely" says Kaiser "so they go and give me eighteen blooming ducklings!"

A very happy birthday dear friend.

Some of the sixteen new ducklings. A couple more late hatched to go in tomorrow.

A few more ducklings since this morning.

After our bad luck with the geese our spirits are lifted with today's hatch of fifteen lovely yellow Welsh Harlequin ducklings. We are holding off another hatch of goose eggs and the second incubator now has twenty-eight Cream Legbar eggs. Not counting them before their hatched, but we already have ...