We love the outdoors and for the sake of our sanity, we try to get outside every day. Some fresh air to blow the cobwebs away. Quite often our trips out involve going to feed the ducks or to visit our wonderful (and VERY friendly) local swans.
We are so lucky to live where we do, as we have so many fabulous local places, where Baby can get up close of personal to the wildlife.
One such place is our local nature lakes, which is so beautiful and has a playground too. The perfect place to while away the hours.
Come rain or shine, feeding the ducks is one activity that Baby just adores and I think she would stay with her feathered friends all day if she could.
She loves it when Daddy comes too, as he always has change to buy proper duck food. Unlike Mummy who always has to resort to raiding her snack box!
It is wonderful to see how confidently she interacts with the birds. As an animal lover, I have no fear and never have had. I am so glad she is following in my footsteps. I know what a great gift animals are and how they can enrich your life. I am pleased that she has not put up any barriers to them enriching hers.
We live fairly close to a canal, that is inhabited by a vast amount of beautiful swans. Almost every time we go into town, we pop to visit the swans (and ducks), which Baby adores. One swan in particular is super friendly and thinks nothing of wandering across the car park after us. If we meet the canal further up, the swans will swim beside us all the way down the canal. Such beautiful creatures, I am so happy Baby is as enchanted with them as I am.
I am linking up with the following fabulous bloggers and their lovely linkys.
Katie from Mummy Daddy Me for #OrdinaryMoments
Jaime at The Olivers’ Madhouse for #MagicMoments 
Charly at Podcast Dove for #What’sTheStory 
Fiona at Coombe Mill for #CountryKids
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So lovely getting out and about now the weather is improving! #whatsthestory
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Yes, I can’t wait until the weather improves even more and we are in t shirts! x
Its lovely feeding the birds and great that she is so confident with them. 🙂
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She loves it so much x
We love feeding the ducks but we don’t have anywhere locally where we can. There are some lovely photos.
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Thanks so much lovely x
Lovely photos and very friendly ducks!!!! We love doing this too x
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Thanks so much x
It’s always great to see kids interacting with animals in a calm and confident way, she looks like she respects that they’re wild animals. The ducks are a firm favourite here on the farm however people aren’t usually as keen with the geese. Thanks for linking up with Country Kids.
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She loves them all! 🙂 x
We went for a walk around the lake on our estate last week, and Elsa really loved looking at all the ducks, swans and geese. I’m a bit wary of her getting too near so we didn’t feed them but my mum has bought some wild bird seed for next time!
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Such a simple pleasure isn’t it x
Seriously seriously cute xxx
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Thank you darling xxx
Cute piccys lovely! I am so excited that is nearly the warmer weather and we can go and and actually do stuff! WAHOO! x
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Thanks my love. We are chomping at the bit to get going with spring/summer xx
We love the ducks too, lovely pictures! It look lovely where you live, wish we had a lot more within walking distance or short car drive xx
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Thank you. We are really lucky to live where we do x
Such lovely photos Aby, how lovely to have some such beautiful places on your doorstep. I just realised i actually have no idea what part of the world you live in! But wherever it is, it looks lovely haha! x
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Ah thank you lovely. We live on the Berkshire/Hampshire border xx
What a gorgeous post. M loves feeding the ducks too but unfortunately he rarely gets the chance to do so as there aren’t many at all in Milan! Whenever we go back to the UK there are lots of opportunities though, and we always make the most of them. It’s such an integral part of growing up, isn’t it!
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Thank you so much x
Oh birds frighten me!! Swans especially lol! Lovely photos hun…. newwwww camera?? 😉
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Actually all these are phone pictures 🙂 xx
So good to see she’s not scared of swans, some of them scare the life out of me! #magicmoments
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There isn’t much she is scared of 🙂 x