I received the nicest email today from my friend, Tim Byrd (of course), who this fall “adopted” my original three ducks.  Sounds like Sonny, Cher and Ringo are doing well in his wonderful pond and as the picture shows, are still sticking together.

This last month the falling leaves in the backyard have created a real game in my life.  It really is an egg hunt now!

When the leaves are really deep I have to follow the swishing sounds of the ducks running across the yard just to find them.  But the eggs, let’s talk about the difficulty of finding THEM in this mess!

These are crazy hard to find!  At least I do know that the most I can gather is three. 

The nest they’ve made under the tree is an easy spot.

Also easy to find in the yard IF we’ve raked the day before.  Can you see 2 eggs out there?

Another easy nest to spot.

My favorite are the eggs they lay on the patio and then I only have to walk a couple of feet for my breakfast, dodging duck poop all the way!

Then came Thanksgiving.  We were out of town so my mom was on egg watch.  Day after day she would tell me they weren’t laying.  We all decided it might have been the weather change and they weren’t fond of the cold.  I came home and still couldn’t find any eggs.  I had come to the conclusion that they just weren’t going to lay much through the winter, until just a few days ago I discovered an amazing sight…….

In a small space between my compost can and the fence I spied a very large pile of eggs!!  OMG!

28 eggs to be exact!  The downside of all these nests is that they hardly lay in the same place more than once or twice.  And as of this morning I’m already missing 5.  It’s makin’ me crazy!