I spent a few days this summer building this great looking fence around my most beautiful tree in the backyard to keep the ducks from eating all my flowers.

I thought it was pretty ingenious and I made sure to put a stick wherever I thought they could squeeze through.  And besides being functional, I was looking for something that would blend with my yard and look good at the same time.  Most of the summer I had a big old piece of chicken wire wrapped around the perimeter of the tree and it looked a little trashy. 

The ducks….

had been laying most of their eggs either out in the middle of the yard or in various nests around the house.  Easy enough to locate.  A few weeks ago, I went out in the morning on my usual egg hunt and found NO eggs.  Thinking they were having a late start to their morning, I gave them till lunch to pop those puppies out.  Still, no eggs.  After work, no eggs!  And then I see one toddle out of the forbidden zone!

Lesson learned.  There is NO forbidden zone!