Duck catastrophe
I’m afraid that the ducks eggs and nest has gone. Something dug under the fence from the next door garden and swiped all the eggs. Only 2 days to go before they hatched as well :-(
Update
The neighbour thinks it was a fox, although maybe it was the neighbour’s dog. You can see the hole and the broken nest here:

and from the other side of the fence:

There was no sign of any eggs or even egg shells.
Mother was OK, but shaken. She sat in the garden for about half an hour like this, just doing nothing:

And that was that.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Joking, that is shocking! I’m not a duck adorer tho this is unbelievable..
Are they checking this blog?
April 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I think N-sama is a bit shocked.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Did your neighbours eat them?