Mallard Ducks at La Alcazaba
On Wednesday 1st
April 2020, our seventeenth day of being confined to our apartment
and garden, there was a lovely surprise that ended as a drama!
Although our walks round our garden are really pleasant, because of
all the flowers and colour, on this day we found in one of our
ponds, a Mallard duck with her nine ducklings, such little bundles of
fluff, so sweet!
So, we ended up not walking as many times around as usual and instead we
enjoyed watching them go from one pond to another. This was
such an effort for the little ducklings as each time to get out,
they had such a struggle, to jump high enough out of the water.
In the past we have seen a couple of Mallard ducks in our
garden and in our swimming pool, often the female had two males with
her. About two years ago, we saw ten little ducklings with their
mother, happily using our ponds and the swimming pool.
Helping the Ducklings
After
watching them for some time, I made a video of them all getting out
of one of our ponds (with quite a lot of difficulty) and we
were then intending to carry on with our walk, but we got a bit
concerned when five of the ducklings followed their mother into another
small pool with a waterfall, that is near to our swimming pool.