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Early May Pictures

May 25, 2014 by NZ Filbruns 1 Comment

We’ve had Welcome Swallows around lately. They act and sound a lot like the barn swallows we had in Michigan—I love them!

This is what our milk refrigerator looked like one Saturday evening, after we were given about a dozen ducks, a turkey, and six geese, plus butchered a large lamb! We breasted most of the birds, or there would have been no room for all of them!

Boy # 4 (James) in disguise!

This hen laid her eggs 3 meters (10 feet) up in a pine tree in the hedge! Her eggs hatched while we were on our Timaru trip, and the morning of the day we got home the lady who was doing our chores saw the last one jump out of the tree!

Filed Under: Activities at Home Tagged With: Birds, Canterbury, Cheviot, Chickens, Fosters Road house, Random Photos

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  1. katrinasampson says

    May 25, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    Love the story about the hen up in the pine tree.

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