A couple of weeks ago, around 3am, Dev and I were spooked by the squaking of a distressed duck. We ran out back to find her swimming frantically back and forth in our pond, and a raccoon with an egg in its paws and broken shells at its feet. (I wanted to kill that little fucker.) The duck had made a nest in an old tree stump... we were too late, the nest was empty.
BUT, surprise, surprise. Yesterday we woke up to find 11 DUCKLINGS in our pond! The cutest things you could ever see. They were swimming happily beside their mother eating the bugs along the bank of the pond. What do you know, she managed to build a second secret nest in a tree stump just 20 feet away, closer to the water (remember the movie Contact? hahaha) I couldn't believe it. She won! (Screw you raccoon!)
See them in action!
BUT, surprise, surprise. Yesterday we woke up to find 11 DUCKLINGS in our pond! The cutest things you could ever see. They were swimming happily beside their mother eating the bugs along the bank of the pond. What do you know, she managed to build a second secret nest in a tree stump just 20 feet away, closer to the water (remember the movie Contact? hahaha) I couldn't believe it. She won! (Screw you raccoon!)
See them in action!
4 comments:
awww Karin, so cute!! how cool that you have the stream/pond in your backyard!!
lisa z
YEA---A comment! Thank you Lisa for commenting on how cute they are! I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought so... Sadly, we are down to 4 ducklings... I don't know what happened. :-(
oh, my god, they are so cute!!
Did you get some inspration from them when you modeled Jean-Bison's First world in Sly 2?
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