Day 195.

Surprise monster egg. Photography by F L Campbell

Bush eggs: none. Nest box eggs: none. Feed hopper: empty then full.

The Female Person is back so we decided to stage a protest. Not about her lack of parenting dedication (this time) but about our lack of Peck‘n’Lay. We checked with the (stupid) ducks and they were out of feed too (not helped by the Boys going down there on pellet raids probably). So we called in the ducks as reinforcements and they called in their wild ducky friends and a couple of pukekos as well.

We all marched up to the people house making as much noise as possible. There were nearly thirty of us in total and what an impact it had. The Female Person had just finished unpacking the car and saying hello to her Little Ones when she sped off and came back soon after with not one but two sacks of feed for the ducks and us. Hurray for the ducks!

As a bit of a surprise ‘welcome home’ present for The Female Person I laid a ginormous egg outside her door. It was sort of on purpose. Sort of. I went to put a big poo there in protest at her leaving the Little Ones but out came the monster egg. Everyone was impressed and I made it seem like that was my plan all along.