Early this week I went out to the front of my home to do a little extra watering on a patch of lawn my sprinkling system seems to ignore, I bent over and pulled on the hose which was wound up on a reel. The reel made about a half a revolution and a female duck came rushing out from under the apparatus and nearly scared the beejeebers out of me.
Earlier in the week my wife had seen both a male and a
female mallard duck out on our front lawn but we didn't think much about
it. I looked to seewhy the duck would be under my hose reel and
discovered eight eggs in a nest she had built. Sincethen she has
settled back in and we are expecting ducklings in about 28 days.
Here is a picture of the duck just outside of her nest
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