When she got home from work one evening, Redditor veiledrose was confused to find a lone, unattended egg in an empty flower pot…

With no mother around and the flower pot sitting on a third floor balcony, she was even more confused to find a second egg the next day…

Eventually the mother showed up…

By the time the muscovy duck was finished, she had laid eleven eggs…


One day, a few pieces of egg shells showed up on the ground around the flower pot…

Finally, the ducklings appeared…



Eventually the mother duck flew to the ground and called for her ducklings. One by one each of the nine ducklings that were hatched dropped three stories to the ground below, much like these Mandarin ducks whose adorable freefalls we’ve seen before…
