Late Wood Duck Nesting

["Tom and Mandy Wilson" <>]

Hi all
the Wood Duck that nest somewhere near my workplace (which is a campus with 
areas of open grass and ponds) in northern Sydney, having raised at least 
one brood this season, showed up on site yesterday with 7 small and newly 
hatched ducklings.  All the material I have found indicates that they are 
late spring/early summer breeders outside the tropics, so this is obviously 
a late batch - I will keep an eye out on their progress.  Is such late 
nesting normal?
Cheers
Tom Wilson

PS - people at work keep referring to "baby ducklings" - I have told them 
that a duckling is a baby duck, and that a baby duckling is otherwise known 
as "an egg".

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