Nalu wrote:
I know that Canada geese will sometimes manage a brood of not only their own chick, but others as well. Do you suppose these ducks, what ever they are, so the same. I just can’t imaging this “mother” successfully laid and hatched that many ducklings.
I couldn't imagine it either. I asked at the visitor's center, and they didn't know of another pair on the pond. I googled it and found that it is possible. Not probable, but possible.