Month: July 2008

We have new family members – 3 ducklings! “How comes”, you might ask, well the answer is a long story.

Our neighbours above us had a duck breeding on their balcony. Since we have a flat “hanging” over a harbor (difficult to explain, check out the home page of our house) below our apartment/flat is the harbor in Hamburg.

So, last Sunday (July 13th), they finally hatched. It seems there were about 9 eggs, out of which five made it down to the harbor very fast, i.e. within about 1 hour after their mother starting calling them from down. The mother was swimming in the harbor and calling them to jump down.

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