A wild guinea fowl chase!

So...it has been a long day.Will was up at 4.00 am and left for work at 4.30. I couldn't get back to sleep so got up. I did some mowing and garden tidying when it was light and a fairly reasonable hour.Today we were expecting a big delivery of building materials but it didn't arrive before I went off to the book cave at 1.00.I worked till 4.00 and came home to find the delivery had arrived about 2.30 but the lorry was so big that it couldn't even get up our neighbour's drive so all the stuff was unloaded at the bottom of the hill.It took Will and I until 7.00 pm to ferry it all up to Blue Moon in Sky Blue and on Roxy's roof on an old mattress. The hardest bit was 8 sheets of fragile plasterboard which we managed to get inside Blue Moon with very little damage.We set about making dinner but remembered the ' chooks' and guinea fowl had not been locked up so we  switched the stove off and went up to lock them in.I thought chickens were fairly dim but compared to guinea fowl they are geniuses. All the ' chooks' were roosting in the pen, even Sheng-Mu, who has been finding her way in now I leave the door open so the guinea fowl can get in and out without using the ramps.We found the 6 guinea fowl roosting up above the entrance on the netting. We should have left them there but Will went to grab one and the other 5 flew off into the darkness. We spent a good half hour trying to round them up with our torches. We managed to herd one back in and Will rugby tackled another two which we put back in the pen but we had to leave three that had flown up into the branches of various trees. At least they are up off the ground. When we finally checked the pen we could only count two of the three we had put back in so hopefully one had hidden in the nesting boxes and not escaped again while we were not looking.In bed by 9.00 as I have another early start tomorrow. I am in school even though it is the last day of term and the school is leaving for Warwick at 7.00 am to be there in time for the Queen's Baton Relay for the up coming Coomonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 7 days.A little treat at the end of this long day was seeing a Frogmouth on one of the new verandah posts and a Sugar Glider in the tree outside. Yes, the monotonous yapping thing is right outside the bedroom window tonight....but thankfully it is silent at the moment.