Mendocino Chronicles

On Tuesday, just as I was pulling out of the house circular drive onto the main driveway, I came upon an unusual sight. There, slowly moving down the road, was a mother mallard duck and her eight ducklings. They went down the road, turned in on the trail to the pond, kept going about one third of the way to the pond, then headed off through the salal toward the creek. A very short while later, I returned with Erich and found them all the way to the pond, swiminng. Sue H also saw them swimming about. I have not seen them since, so they may have moved on.