Today at the duck house, Bert and I watch the ducklings again.

Good morning ducklings:

Refilled the water, topped up the food and bedding:

Let’s step in the water dish while eating:

Hey Bert:

Wide angle view:

Today at the duck house, let’s all take a peek at the ducklings… including Bert.

Site note: I have tagged this year’s duckling posts as ducklings 2020, making it easier to see just the duckling posts (without the flock posts and such) for this year.

And you can even see them in chronological order (i.e. oldest to newest) via this link.

On with the show.

Let’s peek at the ducklings through a nesting box (look at that tiny wing nub on the Buff!):

Some fresh straw:

Wading in the dish; you can see droplets of water on their backs, as the fling the water everywhere. It’ll get even more damp in there once they have the paint tray pool:

Did you see the video of Bert trying to peek at the ducklings? When I did my afternoon rounds, I grabbed some spare bricks and added some below the maintenance door, so Bert could more successfully peek at the ducklings, which he did:

Cam view:

I think it’ll be good for all of them to see each other, so things go more smoothly when they can interact in the pond in a month or so.

Today in the duck house, I added a small dish of water, which was very exciting for the ducklings.

Good morning ducklings!

I added the ceramic water dish (a bit foamy initially from the hose nozzle):

The Buff was first to hop into it:

But most of the others wanted to try it, too:

A duckling on top of the EcoGlow:

And the Buff eating from the tube, barely able to reach it:

Everyone wanted to hop in the water dish:

Buff eating from the tube again:

We begin week two of ducklings. They’ve grown noticeably already.

Good morning ducklings!

Topped up bedding, refilled water:

Assorted pictures of the ducklings:

Happy birthday ducklings! They hatched one week ago today.

Here’s a capture from the duck house cam of the ducklings drinking and eating in the dark (visible with night vision):

Another fun fact: chickens roost and sleep at night, hardly moving, because they can’t see in the dark. I believe the night vision of ducks is better, though still not as good as humans, so they can be active at night.

Good morning ducklings:

Today, Bert and the ducklings saw each other.

But first, some cam shots; last night, a duckling went on the EcoGlow again (probably the same one, showing an adventurous personality):

Ducklings sleeping:

Ducklings drinking:

The usual opening shot of the ducklings; time to add more bedding tomorrow, I think:

A closer look:

I opened the bottom portion of the door, so Bert and the ducklings could see each other:

They retreated at first, then came back out. Bert was good, just standing in the doorway; I was ready to stop him from going inside, but he didn’t try:

He turned his head to look at them from his other eye:

(Fun fact for today: ducks can be literally half-asleep: one eye closed and that side of the brain asleep, the other eye open and that side awake.)

A wide-angle shot of Bert and the ducklings after I closed the bottom of the door:

The ducklings settled down again:

I also recorded a video of Bert quacking and the ducklings peeping, which I’ll probably upload tomorrow. Something to look forward to!

I didn’t spend much time with the ducklings today, as I was busy with another project (more on that another day), but I did get a few pictures during morning and afternoon rounds.

The usual first opening the door shot; the poop is building up, time to clean it out a bit and add some bedding:

On afternoon rounds; looks like the Buff has discovered the feeder tube:

Drinking:

Eating: