For the last three years, a mallard duck has been laying and hatching her eggs outside our kitchen. Until this year, she laid them in a large wooden planter with a fig tree in it outside the back door. This year, she moved around the corner a bit and in to a plant pot. She laid eight eggs and six of them hatched: three males and three females.
A day after the hatchings, the mother was nowhere to be seen. We presumed she'd left the nest for food and been taken by a fox, perhaps.
This blog shows the progress of the ducks until their flight back to the wild (we hope).
