The saga began a few weeks ago when a duck decided that the barrel on our front porch looked ideal for laying her eggs. Every day during that week, the duck would come in the morning, lay one egg, and then leave again until the next morning.
After she laid all seven of her eggs, Duck took up almost round-the-clock residence in the barrel. Levi thought it was great to have a duck live at our house. Every day he would look for Duck through the sidelight window of our front door. Whenever he went out on the porch he would say "Hi Duck! How ya doin' a-day, Duck?". He was proud to tell everyone that he had a duck at his house. There were some days that Levi "checked on Duck" so often, I think that Duck may have had second thoughts about her choice in a nesting location!
Today, when we returned home from our overnight at the cottage, we had to check on Duck to make sure she hadn't flown the coop! She was indeed still there, but much to our surprise, she had company! The baby ducks have arrived!! Duck let me take some pictures of the babies, but after a little while she started hissing at me and ruffling her feathers a bit to let me know she didn't want anything to happen to her babes - not that I blame her in the least! I thought it was so cool to see how caring and protective she was of her little ones and how amazing that we got to watch the whole process unfold right on our front porch! 
Safe under mama's wing!
This little one poked it's head out from under Duck while I was taking the pictures - how precious!!
Happy Mother's Day, Duck!
