Sunday 5 October 2014

Fun feeding the birds......................................................... at Grange over Sands

We went down to the Ornamental Gardens most mornings during our break at Grange over Sands.
This is a short clip of us feeding the birds.
Bar-headed and Snow Geese plus plenty of noisy/greedy Black-headed Gulls.


The geese followed us around as if we were the Pied Piper... it was fun feeding them.
On this particular morning we ran out of bread so crossed the road to the bakers to get some more...
 ...to our surprise they actually did "duck bread" or rather bread past it's sell by date.
All we had to do was donate some cash to charity... they gave us loads.

This video was captured using my little old (2007) Casio pocket camera... it still does a good job.
Warning... don't have your volume turned up too loud... they are rather noisy.

Our World Tuesday and Wild Bird Wednesday

20 comments:

Margaret Birding For Pleasure said...

The video was racket was wonderful but the racket was terrible. Good to see some young geese there as well.

TexWisGirl said...

my goodness! loud crowd! the bakery knows how to capitalize on a good thing.

Ruby said...

The ducks did follow as if you were the pied piper. Excellent video. Enjoyed it a lot!! Thanks for sharing.

Bob Bushell said...

The Geese are wonderful, I can see that you were having fun.

ADRIAN said...

It is a grand pond. I often wonder what Grange was like when they built the promenade. I enjoy the salt marsh now but it is a mucky job negotiating it.

Findlay Wilde said...

The Bar Headed Geese are really nice.

John @ Beans and I on the Loose said...

That one scene, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds came to mind.

Sylvia K said...

Oh, I love your film for the day, Andrew!! Never seen the geese with striped heads!! Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing the fun!!

eileeninmd said...

The geese are cute, fun video.. Have a happy week!

Adam Tilt said...

Duck bread! Great idea and looks like they were enjoying it.

carol l mckenna said...

What fun to join your feathered friends in 'lunch' ~ great video!

artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)

Anonymous said...

What a lovely, noisy bunch!

sunshine said...

Really loud and great birds.

Phil Slade said...

The bakers obviously know which side their bread is buttered Andrew.
Those gulls are a noisy lot.

NatureFootstep said...

snow geeze sounds nice. I send you some whooper swans if you send me some snow geeze. :)

Rebecca said...

What a loud bunch! Looks like a fun time! Thanks for sharing. :)

Janet Shaw said...

Loud Geese but I enjoyed the video of them. :)

EG CameraGirl said...

Your camera did indeed do a good job!

Adam Jones said...

Really great birds and post Andrew. Looked like fun.

Anonymous said...

Great video, Andrew! What lucky ducks and geese to live across the road from a bakery.