Hows My Ducks Doin

Well, Noisy is doing so well sitting on her eggs.  She has gone all mothery and I think she loves the idea of being a mother duck to babies.  I can't wait to see precious little ducklings emerge from her beautiful eggs she has made.


It has been about two weeks now since she started staying on the nest all day and night, apart from maybe an hour at most here and there to go do some foreging, some wing flapping and swimming and ducking and diving in her special pond I made for her and Tiny, Nipper and Bossy.


It's now just getting light on the morning of 21 April 2011 and I just heard Tiny calling out very loudly from the duck yard.  She tends to be very noisy very early in the morning just as the first light of dawn breaks through the dark of the night-time.  Tiny was always the most shy of the trio of sibblings that I added to our family earlier this year.  She has always been the smallest and cutest of the three and has a delightful personality starting to shine through now.  She is getting more tame too.  She used to be the one to move away from me but now shes starting to come up to me more and lets me give her a little tickle under her beak and on her chest.  Now I can hear the local crows doing their morning calling out.  When I first came to Australia from New Zealand in 1981 we used to say that the crows sounded like sheep up in the trees!