Saying our goodbyes :-)
Ready to put them in!
We chose this location as it had shallow water and lots of rocks for the tadpoles to hide under. Little did we know that a duck was lying in wait to munch on the tadpoles! As soon as Faith put them in the water, the duck pounced and ate up two of them. We sprang into action and stirred up the water to make it cloudy so the tadpoles could find hiding places. The children meanwhile kept the ducks away. When we were satisfied that all of the tadpoles were out of sight, we headed for home. I didn't intend to give them a real life lesson on the food chain yesterday - lol!
Keeping the ducks away!
As an aside, we had a robin thumping on the window near our tadpoles for two mornings. He would steadily thump, thump, thump for over an hour. Scotty finally put some butcher paper up on the window so the robin would stop "seeing" another robin in our window. We read up on why the robin was doing this and discovered its fairly common behaviour this time of year. The male robin gets territorial as it considers the needs of its upcoming babies and so it assumes a dominant position when it sees another male robin. If this doesn't work, it actually butts up against the other robin. When that robin does the same thing back (i.e. its reflection) the robin gets very agitated and can leave blood and feathers on the window. Ours didn't get that bad as Scotty got the paper up and it stopped. As I was upstairs listening to the thumps, I started thinking of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds". Shiver!!!!
Putting up the butcher paper...
2 comments:
what a great website - thank you for sharing it with me!
Nancy Berlin
That is a little freaky, isn't it?
We lived near a river with swans once. Often, in Spring, we'd see a male swan trying to attck the other swans he saw in cars' wing mirrors!
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