Paternal Support

With yet another big spate yesterday, it may well have spelled the end for the last 5 ducklings. I have looked carefully but see no sign of any of them. The only hope is that maybe the mother managed to get them somewhere safe upstream, I fear all 26 hatched so far have gone.

Penny managed to get down from the nest this morning, for a stock up of grain and a clean up before returning to the nest. Popeye was close at hand with paternal support, and likely to remain very close from now on for the imminent hatching.