Hello! It's been a long time since we wrote on the blog... we are too busy having fun. But after a new addition to our family this week, we thought it was about time that we updated you! You will see that Port and Starboard (alias Digby 7 and Celeste 5) now have their own voices on the blog. We hope you enjoy our 'Story of Sixto' over the next few weeks.
19th
May 2014 Day One, by Celeste
It was Monday
morning and Digby was sitting upstairs when he suddenly shouted “Look there are
some ducklings!” We ran upstairs and saw a mother duck with six ducklings waddling
along the shore. We watched as the mother duck jumped into the water and then
she quacked at the ducklings to tell them to jump in too. We counted them as
they jumped in. “One, two, three, four,
five, six little ducklings.”
We gave the mother
duck some bread and three male ducks came over.
Two swans came over too. The
bigger swan attacked the ducklings and the mother duck held onto the swan’s
wing with her bill as the swan twirled around in the water. One of the
ducklings went behind a boat, the mother duck followed. We got off our boat and
went to the other side to have a look.
We noticed one of
the ducklings was really wet, we thought it had
gone under water. Ducklings down is not waterproof. While the mother duck was
attacking the swan, the wet duckling had got separated from the others. It was
drowning so Mummy fished it out with a net. She thought it was going to die.
Daddy suggested drying it with a towel to get it warm.
We decided to put a teddy lion in the brood box so the duckling would think it was it’s mother?!
Mummy and I went to find the nest which was very near our boat - here it is:
We
got some of the nest so the duckling would think it was with its mother in the
nest.
Should we keep it until it was bigger?
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