• May 8, 2021
This spring Steve Stuttard reunited with an unusual friend: Mrs. Mallard, a duck that nested in the fuchsia planter on his ninth-story apartment balcony in Manchester, U.K., last year. Upon her return, she laid 11 eggs in a planter filled with grass. I know ducks have strange routines when it comes to nesting, and mallards, if they have a successful site, they will return to it, says Stuttard, a retired Royal Navy survival specialist and an avid bird lover since childhood.
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Duck Tales: Man Uses Naval Skills To Get 11 Ducklings Down 9 Stories
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This spring Steve Stuttard reunited with an unusual friend: Mrs. Mallard, a duck that nested in the fuchsia planter on his ninth-story apartment balcony in Manchester, U.K., last year. Upon her return, she laid 11 eggs in a planter filled with grass. I know ducks have strange routines when it comes to nesting, and mallards, if they have a successful site, they will return to it, says Stuttard, a retired Royal Navy survival specialist and an avid bird lover since childhood.
Those skills came in handy last year when he devised a system to quickly and safely transport Mrs. Mallard s seven ducklings down to the water 20 to 30 meters from the base of his building once they hatched.