A view of the ruckus from outside the nest.

It has become apparent that these duck fights will continue every day until both are done laying.

Fancy (the one with the "fancy" head) spends much more time in the nest than Bella (I had to name her something to keep them straight. Bella means 'beauty' in Italian and Latin - and really, both ducks are very pretty ladies.)  So the nest is Fancy's and Bella is the daily intruder - but, she really needs a place for her babies, too!  So we give her a pass and wish we could tell her that there will be more nest boxes available next year.

At any rate - the squabbles continue each morning.  Today, I decided to capture the view of what the duck fight looks like from outside the house.   As you can see, the nest is really rocking! If you listen closely, you can hear them squawking and banging around inside the nest.  At the end of the video, one of the ducks flies out.

Below the video is a picture of the waiting line to get inside.  Fancy does NOT like this and gets really agitated when Bella is sitting on top waiting to get inside.

Soon they will be done laying - each hen can lay around a dozen eggs.   Once they are done one of them will sit almost full time on the eggs and then the 30 day countdown to hatching will begin again!