Things That Gladden The Heart

Playing today and seeing the swans still have their one baby - as yesterday he/she was nowhere to be seen. I just love the pair of them and they know me by sight and sound and expect to be fed - even wandering onto the 8th green if they hear me. David fed them yesterday and no baby so I was quite upset but so delighted to see them all together today.
 
Mrs has booked us 5 nights in September in a lovely accommodation in Broadford on Skye. She’s been wanting to go to Skye for years, I’ve not been since my last year at uni (1983) when I worked in the Broadford Hotel for the summer. I had a fabulous 10 weeks and have been reluctant to go back as always wary of places revisited changing a lot and not living up to recollections, and especially more recently given how busy I have read and heard Skye has become.

But you know...Skye is glorious, and the Broadford/Elgol area is the historic lands of my clan - with the ancient clan graveyard just down the road from Broadford - and there are still many families of my surname in the area - so that‘ll all be interesting and an experience for my wife. Plus we can nip up and across to stay with relatives near Ullapool and in Fortrose.

So now - really looking forward to it and pleased my Mrs just went for it without me really knowing...??

But first - on Sat off to Cornwall for a week - to Carbis Bay would you believe...ah well...should be ‘interesting’ ?
 
AmandaJR said:
Playing today and seeing the swans still have their one baby - as yesterday he/she was nowhere to be seen. I just love the pair of them and they know me by sight and sound and expect to be fed - even wandering onto the 8th green if they hear me. David fed them yesterday and no baby so I was quite upset but so delighted to see them all together today.
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We have swans with 7 new young and a pair or Egyptian geese with 4 young.
Plus a load of ducklings.

It's quite nice to see them all pottering about. My daughter absolutely loves our Thursday evening 9 holes so she can come and see them all.
 
BiMGuy said:
We have swans with 7 new young and a pair or Egyptian geese with 4 young.
Plus a load of ducklings.

It's quite nice to see them all pottering about. My daughter absolutely loves our Thursday evening 9 holes so she can come and see them all.
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Ahh. I had a seriously pet/tame female duck for a couple of years. Got a bit too tame as she'd fly to me in the car park when she heard my voice and I'd have to get her to follow me back to the pond! I love to see them but the pair of swans aren't too successful as parents so hoping this baby makes it.
 
BiMGuy said:
We have swans with 7 new young and a pair or Egyptian geese with 4 young.
Plus a load of ducklings.

It's quite nice to see them all pottering about. My daughter absolutely loves our Thursday evening 9 holes so she can come and see them all.
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When the courses were shut just over a year ago my wife and I used to walk out to the pond near the tenth fairway on the Medal course every evening - I we did it pretty much because it was around an hour round trip and at the time we were only allowed an hour's exercise - anyway after a wee while we saw that the mallards had hatched ducklings - there were eight of them when we first saw them - a few days later there were only four - we stopped walking that route when it got down to two :(

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davidy233 said:
When the courses were shut just over a year ago my wife and I used to walk out to the pond near the tenth fairway on the Medal course every evening - I we did it pretty much because it was around an hour round trip and at the time we were only allowed an hour's exercise - anyway after a wee while we saw that the mallards had hatched ducklings - there were eight of them when we first saw them - a few days later there were only four - we stopped walking that route when it got down to two :(

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It is so heartbreaking and nature so cruel. They are so flipping cute and remind of effervescent vitamin tablets as they zip to and fro on the water. Like you I count them out and count them in and it's not usual that they all make it.
 
davidy233 said:
When the courses were shut just over a year ago my wife and I used to walk out to the pond near the tenth fairway on the Medal course every evening - I we did it pretty much because it was around an hour round trip and at the time we were only allowed an hour's exercise - anyway after a wee while we saw that the mallards had hatched ducklings - there were eight of them when we first saw them - a few days later there were only four - we stopped walking that route when it got down to two :(

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Last weekend I walked over the crest of the hill on our 1st fairway to find an adult Mallard wandering about next to the burn. Its not deep and quite fast flowing.
We have no ponds or standing water nearby, I was a tad confused ?
 
My lift arriving in 45 minutes to take me to China Fleet for the weekend. A load of ex sailors away for the weekend, what could possibly go wrong?
 
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