CNN.com - Treasury duck hatches ducklings - Apr 30, 2005
Hooray for Duckie! Now the Secret Service can get back to work :-)
CNN.com - Treasury duck hatches ducklings - Apr 30, 2005: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- Break out the cigars. The Treasury ducklings are hatching. The brown mallard duck, which became Washington's newest tourist attraction a block away from the White House, began hatching her ducklings Saturday afternoon. For the curious tourists gathered around her enclosure, there wasn't a lot of activity to see because the hatching was occurring underneath her. 'The hen is sitting on the baby ducklings to incubate them because they are born wet and cold,' Treasury Department spokesman Taylor Griffin explained."
(Via CNN.)