We arrived home after a weekend away to find the first ducklings of the season - twelve ducklings that look a couple of days old rather than newly hatched. There is a drake on duty but also a drake that the female is not happy to have around and there have been some mallard fisticuffs as she and the preferred drake chase him away. The ducklings are at the flycatching phase and that is one of my favourite sights as they paddle like mad and stretch their necks trying to gobble up small flies flying just above the water.
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