Over on the ponds - winter whats happening

very nice shots story well told as always.Thanks

wow! these are beautiful pictures!
not sure which is my favourite! that goose is very scary!

ice crystals, fairy ring, lone tree all fabulous!

nice photos - love the geese :D The angel ring was great, cute pony . Nicely put together blog

the solitary tree gets my vote, especially with that back-drop. nice colours.

Love the snowy hills and lone tree shots. If that Goose had been a swan and it was your Arm and not your leg, you'd be in plaster Stevie...Lucky escape man!

thanks folks, a good way to use up a few pics knocking about ; )

Let me know which pic is your fave and i'll stick it on the photo page.
My fave has to be the frozen pond, the one after the fairy ring. the dappled light and the icy stillness of it draws me in.

Goosey is a sweety really, you can just gently push her back but she'll keep coming at your trouser leg if you're in her zone. Don't worry Pimper, if it had been a swan i wouldn't have gone anywhere near

Great pics Stevie! really nice blog.
I like the frozen pond one too beast and goosey trying to eat your foot! :))))

LOL, Stevie, I had such laughter...LOL. I liked the Goose Belmondo most of all. What happened to her "nose"? Poor bird, must be protecting her pond from all those obtrusive guys hitting her directly to face...
Sorry, LOL, but the photos and story is perfect :)

I like the poly chrystals and the rainbow chards pics but all are very good, no way would I have gotten close enough for the goose to grab my leg, lol, I would probably have fell in the pond in fright...

I love that tree all alone there with such a great view in its background, great blog Stevie, those crystals are beautiful.

how the heck did you hold the camera steady while your leg was being assaulted and you were presumably balancing on one foot???

(the cockney is: wha chew look nat? dunno what it is in Goose)

Strange, Fran, cockney sounds little bit like Slovak. Isn´t "chew look" something like "gaze"?

don't know much Slovak to be able to compare!

the end of "what" adn start of "you" make a sound like
" tch" as in "witch", and we have a habit of contacting words and putting breaks in where none should be - I could have said "look'n at" but we (or I, at least!) would start the last word with an "n"

Some great photos Stevie. I love that solitary tree. I hope you're all right after being attacked :O

lends a whole new meaning to the phrase "getting goosed"!

Im wondering if that is a snow goose today?

2" of snow here and its still snowing.

Same here and I have to take Mut out at 10pm..

put your snow boots on!!! or maybe skiis???

harness up the dog sled ...

got 3 or 4 inches here now!!! maybe the st bernard could come out??

Saturday Update – Extra Goose factor now on ; )

somehow i am reminded of Johnny Morris!??

love those goats!!!

she hasn't cooked her goose????

not sure but shes cooking my trouser leg every time!!!

i thought only dogs fell in love iwth blokes' trouser legs ...

Sorry Steve for simple question, but what is the name of those two creatures with horns?

got to be Julian and Sandy?? (there's one for you older listeners)

Those four are my neighbours pygmy goats Katarina. I think there are many types so not sure what specific type they are but they come under pygmy goats.

"Pygmy" evokes they are small, but they look quite big. I never saw them here. Are they kept for meat or for milk and cheese?

Fran, lol.

Returning to my most favourite blog this year. Just sipping my Sunday afternoon coffee and listening to radio when I heard information, that researchers in London University (I think t was LU) made research on communication among goats. And what was its conclusion? That goats use different "dialects" depending on from where they come from. Lol. Steve, maybe your goose´s cockney dialect is not utopia :)

I must have read this blog and seen these pictures at least half a dozen times and I always come back and enjoy them all over again.

You do good animal voices, Stevie, ever thought of taking over from Johnny Morris?

I don't know if I'm seeing it properly, but that goose does seem to have a very twisted bill. She must be able to manage with it, she's survived so far, but do you know if it was caused by an accient or was she hatched like it?

Hi Fran, the question in not on me, but I guess she was hatched like it. Otherwise she won´t survive. But will wait for Steve´s answer, too.

lol the more the merrier!

hello fran/kat, the goose belongs to one of my neighbours, I think they said it was a rescue goose but I am not sure where they got her so no exact information, only she likes to defend her pond : /

well, she seems to be thriving despite it - lol just now occurred to me, now *there's* a positive image of "disability"! and she's ready, willing and very able to defend "her" space - maybe even more so as it's her adopted space ... lol I think I like her, she's clearly a "sister who's doing it for herself"