If a duck quacks on a rooftop, does anybody hear? Maybe not, but when she lays a nest full of eggs in a planter on the roof of D.C.’s Planet Word Museum, everyone starts watching.
The momma mallard may have been very smart, or she may have just been a lucky duck when she chose her nesting spot, cozying up between a couple plants in a rectangular planter on the Northwest museum’s rooftop terrace to lay her eggs.
Once the museum found out about the brood to be, they took to protecting their newfound feathered friend and her babies like, well, a duck to water. The museum got ahold of City Wildlife, a D.C. rescue and rehabilitation organization, and came up with a plan to protect the nest and little peepers once they hatch…