Boats on the move ....

Sometime yesterday morning (Monday 4th May) two of the moored boats opposite us left the marina ... we didn't even hear them go!

We sat out on the back deck with our cuppa as we usually do ...

If anyone with a heart has seen male ducks raping a female duck you'd really be upset ... the way they chase after her even if she's surrounded by her chicks with her quacking like mad at him trying to escape his advances ... personally it makes me so angry I feel sick.  This is what happened in the photos above and as a result she ended up flying to the opposite pontoon flapping her wings and shaking.  One of her chicks swan over to her up the bank and she soon realised that the second one wasn't there.  All ended happily though this time, she dropped back into the water and called to them both ... and they came, thank goodness.

 I think this Great Crested Grebe ...

has taken a bit more than he can chew!

 Oooo .... the marina staff are moving more boats ... will we be going soon?