Ducks and Geese

We went to see the Ducks and the Geese at Cannon Hall today.
Cannon Hall at Cawthorne nr Barnsley is set in extensive grounds. They have a farm there were you can feed the goats and pigs but we didn't go in to that part today. We just had a wander around the gardens, looking at all the magnificent flowers and shrubs that are there.
This is a view of part of the garden to give you a flavour of what it was like. The scent coming of these bushes was very nice. The wife said they were Azelias, but, as I'm not up on names of flowers, I took her word for it. I know the photo doesn't do it justice. We had a sit down on the benches in front of the hall for a little while and the view was staggering.There's a bit of a grass slope just there and the kids were having a whale of a time rolling down it.
After we had sunned ourselves, we took a walk down to the pond. There are all sorts of wildfowl in residence down there. I took this pic of a coot nesting in the middle of the pond. All the Canada Geese get very close to you, looking for scraps of bread. As we were all licking ice-creams at the time, they were very interested in us, especially the little girl. Her Ice-cream being a bit lower to the ground than the rest of us.
There's a garden centre next door to the car-park, so the boot of the car was full of plants on the way home.

I don't know were the wife is going to plant them, there isn't a bare patch of soil left in the garden.