Vulnerable
2 min readMay 6, 2024
Vulnerable:
there’s only a few ducks at my neighborhood pond, a small population that seem quite fragile to me and giving me concern for their well-being. Once they were thriving in numbers here, staying through all seasons and always the arrival of the newly hatched in spring. Yet now there’s less than a dozen and I often find them retreated further up the streams into woods, spending less time in the pond which is now dominated by geese. I…