Duck Baby Update

Probably no one else was seriously afraid that all the baby ducks in the Boston Public Garden hadn’t survived the rainstorms this month, as I postulated yesterday, but just in case, I would like to report that today I saw twelve ducklings paddling around the pond.

They were all attended by just one woman duck though, so either that means just one of the duck couples had babies this year, or the rest of the duck families were hiding their babies, or the ducks have some sort of babysitting timeshare system set up. And if the latter is true, I think we need to be much more watchful of the ducks, because their social structure is way more advanced than anyone probably thought.