For those of you who, like me, were completely enamored by the ten baby teal chicks on our pond, I have bad news. After watching them happily play all day Sunday and again seeing them out there swimming Monday after work, I never saw them again. Wednesday when I was home it was just the male teal out on the pond. Yesterday the traumatized mother joined him in the afternoon and they swam around a bit, even while I was in the pond “harvesting” algae for the garden. But no chicks at all. The circle of life can be cruel. Sigh.