Everything is happening so quickly with the partridges, and I can hardly keep up. They are now paired off quite happily (more or less), and the past twelve hours have been spent building them some decent accomodation as recommended by the ever present GWCT manual. One thing that has really taken me by surprise is the appearance of huge swollen wattles on the cheeks of one of the cock birds. Usually, these little red wattles are small and inconspicuous, but the last twenty four hours has brought about a bit of a transformation on (weirdly) just one of the cocks. I wonder if it will appear on the others in the next few days. It can only be a good thing, I suppose.
There’s a great deal more to breeding grey partridges than meets the eye. The only thing that’s certain at the moment is that I’m enjoying it.
Bog Myrtle & Peat 
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