A trip to the countryside?

Monday was the last day of the holidays. It was a tired day as we'd all had a really late night on Sunday watching the soccer. My school started on Monday so the girls spent the morning at home and we went for an afternoon drive.

We visited a lovely duck pond / bird sanctuary where we fed the ducks and other birds and even some very tame squirrels:

This family of yellow bills was a real hit!

Abigail had the guinea fowl eating out of her hand!

We came across this "albino" guinea fowl, quite unusual.
This squirrel was really close, I am not zooming in! He/she loved the white bread that Abigail put down and was not frightened of us at all.
The weaver birds were very busy and not interested in food at all, it was all about finishing those nests!If you look closely at this picture you can see a white billed duck sitting on a nest. After a while she couldn't resist the temptation and left her nest to get some bread.

On the way home we came across this man trying to fly!:

I'm not sure what he was thinking because there wasn't much wind and certainly not enough to lift this kite (or parachute sail thingy) and him, anyway we watched him for a while.

Just along the road from there we met a herd of cows. They were so sweet, as cows are! There were quite a few calves of different ages and the girls loved seeing the smallest one drinking from it's mother.

So where was this place? Malmesbury? Philadelphia? Worcester? No, just around the corner in Bergvliet about 10 minutes drive away! What a pleasure!