The question of what destroyed the duck eggs is resolved as I found the corpse of a female mallard. It was definitely the work of a fox. I was misled by the appearance of just a few feathers at the scene of the eggshells and by the continued presence of the pair of mallards on the moat. Of course I now realise that the dead duck was sitting on her eggs and was in fact a second pair of mallards aiming to raise a brood on the moat this year.
Red in tooth and claw........
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