This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge invites us to share images of those things that distract us from the important business of Getting On With Daily Life.
This is an easy one. Since about Easter, here in our village, the distraction has been ducklings. Sweet little balls of fluff that appeared at Easter, rapidly matured towards lankier childhood then … oh! …. vanished. A jealous mallard? A fox? Who knows? Another brood appeared soon after. Here are two of them.
This time, they’ve managed to grow up. They sit around the pond in bored huddles in the manner of teenagers everywhere. They’re still charming enough to be distracting when they put their minds to it though.
But those moorhens who moved in. They’ve been nothing but a worry. One day, a chick broke its foot, and distressed us all by somehow rolling and dragging itself forward across the grass as its mother looked on with apparent indifference. Since that day, we’ve had occasional sightings of a lone parent, a lone chick. But the family seems to have scattered. This has been distracting too. But not in a good way.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Sweet ducklings.
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They seem to grow up slightly thuggish though …
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I try to focus only on pleasant, uplifting distractions lately!
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I’m sure you do. I think of you often, and the challenges you’re facing. All good wishes.
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I get too involved with the chicks and ducklings that we have here. This year I have tried to distance myself from them, telling myself that there is nothing I can do to help them if they get into trouble. I have felt less anxious about them but I still get qualms of guilt now and again. I love the sparkly pond!
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We obviously both go through the same anguish. Yet obviously they have so many chicks because they expect most of them not to make it. What a life eh? Yes, I like the sparkly pond too. Thanks!
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The photo of the pond is so peaceful and relaxing.
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Except when it’s all squabbling and kerfuffle from the mallard drakes!
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It can be hard to try to balance out the distressing with the more uplifting. But its good to try.
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And the moorhen family put in an appearance at the weekend again. As predicted, the injured one wasn’t there … but things are not as bad as we feared.
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Glad to hear the rest of the family are okay.
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