Quack! Quack! – A Duck’s Tale!
You may have met me before! Julia is on holiday but wanted to take part in this week’s Alphabe so has added a ‘Q’ for you!
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Hi!
I’m Dolores
I live at Sheffield Park . Heard of it?
It’s a landscaped garden in East Sussex. We’ve been here for generations. It’s a great place to bring up ducklings & chicks – lots of space & water. For instance if you have trouble with the neighbours, there are at least 3 other stretches of water (I think humans call them lakes & ponds) that you can move to for some peace. As you can see there are loads of water lilies so plenty of food for me & the youngsters
Anyway Sheffield Park gets lots of human visitors. Apparently they come to see the trees! We don’t do flowers but trees – well we have them all shapes & sizes. 
Humans love to walk around here,crossing the lakes via the really delightful bridges. Maybe they don’t have gardens of their own?
While I’m walking around, I like to watch their odd behavious & eavesdrop on their conversations. There was this couple yesterday who were smelling the air! Honestly – sniffing away! For goodness sake! Have they no idea how foolish they look? It seems the scent of all the rushes along the water brought back memories of summers walking along meadows when they were young.
Humans are really funny creatures because some of them talk to us! Don’t they realize we’re ducks! Anyway, as if I’d tell them where I was going! It’s got nothing to do with them!
Sheffield Park is kept very nice by a team of humans who come in regularly to mow, trim & weed. I think they are from the same brood as they have jumpers with National Trust on them.
All in all I can heartily recommend Sheffield Park. It’s certainly worth a visit especially if you are looking for a nesting place. One word of warning though. Look out for the family of swans. Now they have cygnets, they think they own the place!
Do you know of any great National Trust places that are good for ducks?
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This post is for Alphabe-Thursday over at Jenny Matlock’s blog for the letter ‘Q’. Click the badge for some more entries.
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Hi Dolores! You are quite a wonderful friend to fill in for Julia while she is on vacation.
I hope she’s someplace as relaxing as your home. I really enjoy your water decor!
Thanks for linking up and thank you for the smile.
I would give you an A+, but I think you’d much prefer a nice dried crust of bread!
She;s adorable!!
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How nice to hear from you, Dolores! You have a lovely home.
What a beautiful spot!
(Hate to admit it, but I can imagine myself smelling the air, too. But then, I always was a little odd.)
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I only know the South of England, the coast, but there is also a beautiful national park the South Downs.
That’s a really lovely park. and interesting duck tail.
You are a mighty fine looking hen. You could come join my flock. We have a human that waits on us wing and bill.
sincerely,
Quackers the Drake at Eden Hills
Quite the quacking good post! Glad I stopped in from Alphabet Thursday.
I agree with Vicki (aka Jake)! This is a very clever post!!
Your guest blogger is quite cute (qute?). I have two birds and from time to time they will do a post :). This looks like a very beautiful place. Visiting from Alphabe-Thursday. xo
This is my first duck writing also!
Lovely photos…
Thank you for the smile! I don’t believe I have read anything written by a duck before. :))
Although we won’t be adding that cute little duck to our Alphabet Soup, we will add all the tasty and beautiful pictures to make an extra delicious pot of tastiness!
Thanks for linking!
Each week I visit here I am even more determined to take a trip to that “side of the pond” one of these days!
Julia, you are lovely.
A+
I’ve never been to a National Trust site, but I can promise that duck a warm welcome by the ponds over here.
thank you ducky for sharing your memories of Sheffeild Park – sound like a great place to go for a walk…..cheers..bkm
I loved that you wrote from the duck’s perspective! What a fun post.
adorable duck tale.
Looks like a great spot. I talk to my chickens I hope they do not mind that as much as the ducks seem to.
What a lovely post. It looks like a beautiful place. I don’t think it’s so far fetched that birds and other animals have those conversations to themselves about humans lol. Great cute post.
THank you! I just love the Dr Doolittle idea too!
My favourite too is Stourhead – great for ducks (and humans!)
Great fun reading posts like yours on Thursdays!
Happy Alphabe-Thursday,
LOLA:)
PS Mine this week is HERE. Hope you’ve the time to join me!
I love Stourhead too!
I’ve never been to this property, it looks lovely! Stourhead in Wiltshire is our current favourite (it’s close to us) and it’s great fro ducks with its wonderful lake!
Lovely post J, don’t know how I missed this one…your guest poster writes beautifully!