Faith's Babies Return To The Wild

After the tragic demise of Faith, the duck that lost it's bill to an Otter, her offspring were returned to the river today. She had 3 surviving ducklings, I reared alongside 4 motherless ones for the past 7 weeks, it was time to introduce them to the other young ducks on the river.

One of them is a female, so hopefully Faith will live on ! 

Meanwhile on the way home I discovered yet another injured pigeon wandering out of the Candy cabin on the brae. It appears to be a young one that may have been hit by a car, right wing drooping but not broken. 

I will give it some TLC for a few days and see how it goes.

Faiths Babies

Summer is very much here and the river wildlife is enjoying warm days, short nights, and plenty of river weed and insect life. The cygnets are growing at a phenomenal rate, 

and we still have 33 surviving ducklings at the moment.

 Faith's ducklings are doing well at home along with the 4 motherless ones, and enjoying their new double decker pool, 

especially if it has 
lettuce in it ! 

Short video of having fun and cooling off below.