| Nesting Mrs Mallard
We have been honoured by Mrs Mallard, she is nesting in one of the pillars of our brick wall. Yesterday we were both pottering in the garden and Mrs Mallard left her nest, we both thought we had disturbed her so we took a peek at the fishpond, no sign, we took a look at the swimming pool and there she was....My question is if she successfully rears all her 14 duckings (eggs at the moment) and she takes them in the swimming pool, will the chemicals harm her/them? We recently returned from 5 weeks in scotland and the pool was rather yukky so hubby topped up the chemicals and gave it some shock (that was before we knew we had Mrs Mallard in residence). |