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A hen checks out a nesting cavity. Ellen Kenny photos.
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Prior to her disappearance which I had the good fortune to watch (a very ungainly, flapping as she vanished into the hole). She kept shifting from foot to foot and peering down into the hole.
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The drake was a few feet away and below, and was as still as she was restless. I wonder if she deposited an egg? If that’s where she’s nesting, it’s a long drop to the ground. It would be amazing to see the chicks tumble down from that height.
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When she reappeared from the cavity, they both took off toward the marsh.
The picture that I would have loved to have gotten but missed was of a grey squirrel, hanging upside down from the underside of the limb right beneath where the ducks were both sitting when I first spotted them.