Mallard eggs in my garden

Sounds like a good place to put a blind

Used to have mallards. Their eggs are the best!

We have mallards. Sometimes they’ll sit the eggs other times they dump a pile and never sit them. Also, they will randomly drop them around the yard. Most frustrating thing is when they finally sit the pile and get off days prior to hatch. When I want ducklings or friends do I’ll just put them in the incubator and hatch them myself. If I recover fresh eggs people who bake love them and I’ll gift them some. Or just eat them.

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Used to have mallards. Their eggs are the best!

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I lived next to a crazy lady who had a tank about 20 feet wide and 40 feet long and about 4 feet deep. She had a bunch of yard ducks and they laid eggs everywhere, on her property and ours. They are damned delicious. They are way better for baking than store bought chicken eggs due to the high fat content. She would gather them up and bring us a half a dozen a day but I could gather that many or more out of our yard most days. They were very good.

That tank also held migratory ducks, small as it was. It was the only body of water within a mile other than the Pecos river and it would be COVERED in ducks, divers and puddle ducks, from late October - February or so. The first time I flushed a pair of canvasbacks off her tank I thought I was hallucinating but within an hour there were 100 mallards and pintail sitting on that tiny arse tank...so many migrant ducks her yard ducks had to take a number to get in a swim....she was completely oblivious to this when I first mentioned it...she knew that ducks came and went to that small tank but never paid them any attention until I showed her a picture I had taken of about 20 cinnamon teal sitting on it and how unusual that was even in New Mexico and she started keeping a tally of the ducks she could identify. It was pretty damn cool. My shop door opened up right in front of that tank, about 20 yards away. I would sit just inside the door and watch all manner of migrant ducks sit down on that tiny little tank. At times you couldn't run them off.