Friday roll-call

Just a quick note about the duck situation. We now have three mothers in the quad, though the most recent arrival appears not have hatched chicks yet (though she appears to be tending a nest in the bushes). Of the two existing mothers, both appear to have 4 chicks each. It's been a couple of days since we last saw a mother with 5, so we may be down another chick. As it happens, we're already below half the number of chicks that we started with (18).