Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Mallards and morality

The behaviour of the ducks in my back garden has become more and more baffling. The pair - Mr and Mrs Always-together Mallard - seems to have disintegrated. At one point she was with FOUR males. Since then, she has disappeared, and I have the disturbing spectacle of Mr Mallard with another Drake, seemingly inseparable and very fond of each other.
Where is she? On eggs, or in a huff?
There is more than a hint of loose morals in my back garden. I wonder what the Vatican's take on this is likely to be.

2 comments:

Mary Strachan Scriver said...

The Pope either said: "This filth must be cleaned up,"

or

"It never crossed my desk."

Prairie Mary

Jake Allsop said...

We are now down to one lone drake, whose behaviour is so erratic that I am convinced he is neurotic. He's come to the right place....