Wild birds at a country garden have become so tame during the foot-and-mouth crisis they are eating out of the hands of staff.
A local bakery has been donating stale bread to help staff at Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, feed ducks, geese, moorhens and Percy the pheasant after the gardens were closed as a precaution against the spread of the disease.
Usually the birds pick up morsels left by visitors but some have been daring to go a little nearer to staff to get their pickings since visitors were shut out of the country estate.
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