Sweet, MMario! (Actually, this duck is ambitious! There are EIGHT eggs extant!)

I took a neighbor on a short "bird tour" yesterday morning, visiting the woodpecker nest across the street and the ducks next door, and these two contrasting nests also became a perfect mini-bird lecture subject for my 15-year-old son on the way to school. (Mom-the-Park-Naturalist takes these opportunities when she finds them.) Maybe he'll remember it in this context: there are two distinct types of bird nests and we find an example of each near our house. Woodpeckers and others hatch quickly but are helpless and are fed for several weeks by the parents until they're fledged, and even then the parents continue to teach them to find food. Ducks, geese, other birds are in the egg much longer but are hatched ready to move. And move they do, immediately, to the water (in the instance of the ducks) to begin to feed themselves.

I'll have some of that brew, Bill D, sounds nice. (But make it a small one, I have to work today).