last year's brood and the year's before

This is the mother duck with her brood two years ago, hatched in a plant container.

That year's ducklings.

This video shows the same mother leading her ducklings (also hatched in the plant container) away in early May last year, through the garden and into the long grass of the field. This is what should have happened to the six little ducks on this blog, but unfortunately it didn't.