Ok… they’re not THAT kind of chicks… and technically they are ducklings, but hey, got your attention! And don’t worry, I’m 20+ feet away, using the zoom lens. See more!

My new office has windows that are at ground level. Early May I noticed I had a neighbor… a duck, who had fashioned a bit of a nest in the corner of the building near my window. And the nest, we noticed once when the mama duck wasn’t around had an egg in it. Unfortunately, a few weeks later mama was gone, and the egg had gotten… I don’t know what. Maybe a coon or some other critter got to it, hard to say, but it was pretty well smashed.

A couple days later the landlord’s landscaper was cleaning up around the building and the nest was soon gone. We were all kinda bummed around here.

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