I’ve been meaning to post a photo of Momma duck and her babies.  Remember I wrote about the duck who made a nest in our front planter?  She had her babies on May 23, about mid-day.  Of course we were out of town, but that’s the time frame we can figure out since we returned home that night and someone was at our home earlier in the day and the eggs were still there.  Here are all 15 ducklings swimming away in the pond.  Recently, a group of eight hens has flown back to the pond after a pretty quiet summer on the water.  I don’t know what happened to all our ducks, but now eight are back on a regular basis.  They don’t seem skittish when I walk by them, or go up to the water’s edge.  And that they’re all female makes me wonder if they’re the ducklings who hatched in my front yard.