Photo-a-Day  (Tuesday, 1st August, 2023)

She must have been quakers to lay her eggs there. I hope they survive and hatch out ok.

How strange that the Mother has left her eggs there. I hope they will be okay. I once did a pen-and-ink sketch of that scene for my boss when I left work to have my first child....that's 47 years ago so was before Wigan Pier was turned into a museum and the buildings "done up".

How strange to leave the eggs there…No sign of Ma Mallard ….

You should have moved them Mick, to somewhere safe!!!

She’s definitely a duck head, I will be cycling along there when we get some fine weather to see how far they have got with the tow path to Parbold,very strange laying eggs there……….

Not last long there, have they been purposely placed there?

They were probably laid there by a Shevington Mallard out on his rounds.

Mick 2 years ago we had 10 eggs laid on the grass at the side of the towpath, don't know if you saw them.
They only lasted a few days and they were gone, some said it would be a fox, but at that time we had a filipina living in the village so some blamed it on her.

Duck egg meant to say, I always take some swan and duck food when cycling along the canals cannot beat it .

Mallards usually lay about 12 eggs in grass or rotting tree trunks. These could have been put there by the human hand.
Canals are not their favourite location.

No doubt it seems a trifle queer
To lay my eggs eggsactly here
There is a reason for my folly
I was out last night upon a jolly
As I made for home feeling much befuddled
And being dark and in a muddle
I laid my eggs upon the Pier
And that is why you found them here.

The Drunken Duck.

Done deliberately I assume..at the expense of Ma Mallard and her would be brood.
She’s probably hovering about worried about the eggs sadly. I thought it was against the law to remove birds eggs.

You daft so-and-so, Our DTease! That really made me laugh.....I hope Veronica has seen it! The Drunken Duck sounds like a pub. I wish we could put laughing-face icons on here like we can on emails and facebook....that certainly deserves one!

The age old question yet baffles Philosophy ,
What came first . The eggs or the bloke on the velocipede ?

You know where those other duck eggs went to Syd Smith, and you know where these will end up, *and we too know who'll be having Singaporean Duck Eggs, 'Char Kway Teow,' for tea.

*You can't mention names or give any hints now, otherwise 'snowflakes' accuse you of being a member of a gang always making nasty comments.

DTease, I'd imagine that a duck with a hangover would be right nowty thing in having to confront of a morning.
I was trying to think of where I'd heard of The Drunken Duck, anyhow I've had a root and the pub is in Ambleside. It's a good tale of how the Inn got its name:
ratedtrips.com/establishments/drunken-duck-inn

Deliberately staged.

The snowflakes won’t bother about this Cyril…even if they know
who the culprit is!
Dtease I hope you are doing your dissertation on rhyming riddles..

Yes Syd, I remember people blaming her for taking the duck eggs, because they found out that duck eggs with partly formed chicks inside are a delicacy in the Philippines.

Ive never heard of this filipna women, but she might have been here when I was traveling the world.
But I can confirm that in most Asian countries duck eggs with baby chicks inside are a delicacy, I remember eating them in the Philippines and in Cambodia.

LOL. Fake as a fake thing with fake pants on.

There’s also a bar in Las Americas (Tenerife) by the name of The Drunken Duck Cyril.

Mick, with you having lived there you should know that fowl eggs with embryos are a delicacy all around the Far East countries.
The guide in Karl Pilkington's Idiot Abroad when in the Far East was eating them, and when Karl asked him does the the embryo bother him, he just laughed saying "very good."
I'd imagine them to be all bone and legs and with a very hard beak for them to break out of the shell.

I've never been to Tenerife John, though it'll be a lot better weather for sitting outside there, and there'll not be any midges, though it'll be twenty odd years since I was in Ambleside.

More phoney than Mick's phoney friends .

I don’t know about anybody else but the thought of eating embryonic fowl makes me feel sick.
Wise words DD.

Plato pondering for infinity
How strange to find in this vicinity ,
Duck eggs on a stone tow path ,
Concluded someone was having a laugh ,

Who could it be taking the Michael ,
Perhaps some person on a cycle ?
Electric powered with a throttle ,
So did muse Aristotle .

And so it was generally agreed
By all including Socrates ,
Except by one far eastern seer
Who had another bright idea ,

Confucius is a chap you can rely on
To say what bird lays on tracks of iron ,
And so he wisely made the claim ,
It's not a duck but a water rail .

Poet

Verily Poet thou writeth a comely verse
‘Tis beyond all doubt I have seeneth worse
Thy pen doth floweth like the yolk of an egg
Off the paper and downeth thy leg.

Who is this Shakespeare chappie hey hey?
Well! What dust expect from an owd Aspull Marra?

Gradely Dtease thou bard of Haigh ,
I likest much thy paean ,
Accept upon thy laurelled head
The mark of the British lion .

A distant mind comes upon us all ,
as we seek the bird that’s flown ,
but a merry head is a bikers wind,
with hair , a bald , can own …

Eggs are eggs unless they grow legs,
Who didst this foul deed the matter begs?
What strange far flung creature snatches from the feathered nest?
Then flees the scene the horrible hairy-legged pest!

From the fair hand of Mistress Veronica ,
Another work that must be honoured ,
That will go down in the literary history
Of the Wigan pier duck egg mystery .

Now on balding pates the place is clear
Where the lion's stamping should appear ,
But on the flowing locks of lady poets ,
The question is where we should put it .

I hope to gain ‘honorary’ membership to the poetry club Poet. ( how much to join? ). ;o))