The ducks hatched on March 22nd and came to us on March 23rd
(Thanks,
Tom, Julie and Paul!)		 A10.jpg (8367 bytes)
Sitting on
Pebbles
They doubled in size every week! This is at 2 weeks... ducks2wks2.JPG (27851 bytes)
A warm spell hit CT at 4 weeks old gardensm.jpg (21581 bytes)
By 6 weeks old they were outside for good...

Then I spotted HER on the island.....
(with help from Pebbles)		 momonnest.jpg (25796 bytes)
She was sitting on 11 eggs
BUT
within 2 days Ping and Splash were hanging out near her nest.		 oursnearnest.jpg (42680 bytes)
Once her eggs hatched - she moved them to a better feeding pond
(this is typical) and Ping and Splash stayed with us!
Flapping! flapwing.jpg (31399 bytes)
Teal Wings tealwing.jpg (12798 bytes)
An emerging green head on one...at least one is a male greenhead.jpg (10549 bytes)
They waddled over from the pond to the paddock to get crumble. waiting.jpg (9506 bytes)
2 males!

Splash and Ping
(l-r)

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Click the ducks below to hear them!
At 2 days old on 3/24/02
rubberduck.gif (2787 bytes)		 This is what they sounded like on 4/8/02
rubberduck.gif (2787 bytes)		 This is what they sounded like on 7/25/02
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We'll miss that quacking....Labs and Ducks don't really mix
Pebbles didn't know when to stop.  Ping died after a game of chase and   after that Splash was released into the Northfield Brook Lake were he joined a BIG flock.