🚨 Breaking Pond News 🚨 🦤 Dory (Duckateers' mama) has her new clutch hatching as we speak ... serendipity that I checked in on her at the perfect moment 🥰 📸 4 Photos ... I tried motion captures, not certain if it works on Pixelfed or if they show up as a single still-photo 🤔🤷♂️ 🐣 I've counted six so far, and am not entirely certain what her final egg count was 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 #Ducks #Ducklings #MuscovyDucks #Wildlife
RiversideBryan
Typically other ducks (muscovy that is) stay away from a nesting mother, with the exception of her current mate, the male she paired with for this season. He (papa) comes and goes. Sometimes the papa will nest-sit so mama can go find food and drink, but not always. Only difference i happened to notice with her this round was, the first several days she nest-sat, the duckateers waited patiently next to her, apparently sleeping next to her, but after 3 or 4 days moved on without her, and I don't think there's been contact since then.
@RiversideBryan Thank you for answering my questions!
I try not to anthropomorphize the Duckateers and their mother, but sometimes I just stroll right into doing it.