PHOTO BY HIPS/WILL KIRK

She may be a duck, but it looks like her offspring will forever be known as Blue Jays. Arriving last week on the Homewood campus was the future mother of 11, assuming that all those eggs she laid in a tulip bed near the Krieger breezeway survive their gestation period. To take care of the nesting waterfowl (foreground in photo) — protected under federal law no matter where she rests — Plant Operations constructed a four-foot chain-link fence around the bed, complete with small openings for her convenience. Since duck eggs take about 28 days to hatch and ducklings need five to eight weeks to get their proverbial wings, the little ones are unlikely to fly the coop until well after Commencement.

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