Australian Spring and the New Generations

This is only going to be a tiny blog as I battle with the new way Blogger is insisting I deal with.....

What joy this afternoon to find the Tawney Frog mouths have produced two chicks. This has not happened for a couple of years. They were sitting in the Wisteria tree and I think their nest must have been close by but I had been unable to find it. It was not in their usual tree.

Now also, the Wood ducks, or maned Geese, which have been cavorting in the pond for some weeks, last week arrived with five ducklings, you can see them in the photo on the left. 

But this afternoon, as I was having my evening whisky for the first time on the veranda which overlooks the pond,the weather being so mild and calm, the parents arrived with only three ducklings. So have they lost two already? Or is this a different set of parents?They all had a vigorous sploosh about in the pond and then waddled off to the West. I have no idea where they are camping over night as they nest in tall trees and I am sure the ducklings, having been made to fall out of the tree, cannot fly back up at this stage....life is full of mysteries...