General Discussion & Chat: **SWEET INTERRUPTION** 9, 0 by bjwilson

bjwilson wrote:
Ooo... we could have an Olympic celebrity in our midst... good luck to him...

Remember the ducks that come to my front door to get fed everyday... well, when Don's mom was here, she named them Dilly and Dolly. I noticed a few weeks ago that Dolly had some feathers missing from the back of her head... I looked into what might be causing that, and one of the possibilities was that Dilly may have been 'fertilizing' her eggs... so to speak. Well, a few days ago I was dead heading my zinnias and noticed a duck nest with 2 eggs in it on the ground below my zinnias, which, when you live on a lake, that's pretty common. Well, today I went to check again, and Dolly is sitting on 5 little eggs. When I walked up, she left the nest, but just stood nearby... I just hid behind the stand of zinnias so she couldn't see me to take this pic. If she thinks her eggs are being threatened, she'll try to move them, and will probably not be successful in doing so... ducks are pretty clumsy, ya know. I really, really want her to hatch those eggs right where they are. So, dead heading my zinnias for the next month might get tricky.

Last year, a duck laid some eggs below my hostas, and some predator attacked them. I found egg shells all over the yard. I was upset for weeks after that.

If you look closely, you can see some of the eggs Dolly is trying to hatch.