Donnald and Daisey Have eggs

Great news, today 31st March 2008 while checking the island, we discovered that Daisey was sitting on 9 eggs, we managed to grab this picture when she was off the nest feeding thereby creating minimal disturbance to the nest. She may lay more as Mallards can lay up to a clutch of 12 eggs. We will keep this particular blog updated and hopefully in around 20 days we will be able to film the ducklings. We will also be keeping a wary eye open for predators especially when she is off the nest feeding, we have a colony of Rooks nearby and the odd Carrion Crow is known to visit feeding area.