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After 3 days hatching, I awaited the final duckling to hatch from the incredible 14 egg survival saga. With bated breath it finally broke free, and I was overjoyed to see yet again another golden duckling !
One of my previous posts was entitled the miracle of eggs, only days after that, the trust rescued 14 eggs on the 6th of April.
Today all 14 eggs have hatched and the ducklings are feeding happily by themselves.
Considering these eggs were under icy water for several hours with less than week to hatch, is truly a miracle of survival. Short video below showing feeding time.
All over the World at this time of year, millions of eggs are being incubated ready for a new generation of birds. Eggs are something we all take for granted, but they are a miracle of evolution.
They have been so successful for creation, millions of years before humans ever appeared on the planet. Quite a thought ! Completely self contained they possess all the ingredients and DNA outside the parents to become new life. We are privileged to witness something that has successfully happened since the age of the Dinosaurs !
These are some pics of previous years hatchings, and swans eggs that were abandoned in the harbour back in 2007.
The tennis ball in the centre was just to show the scale size.
