Cute, but still kinda sad.

I almost forgot to put this out here.

Yesterday, on my way to St Pete, I needed to stop at the bank to get a little bit of cash. I pulled in through the ATM drive around thing. I was pulling up along the drive thru windows just before the ATM and couldn't believe it....at the jog in the building, there was a mama duck sitting on what looked to be about a dozen eggs.

At first I thought how cute, how cool and snapped a pic with the cellphone and pulled up to do my business with the machine. While I was waiting for it to spit out my cash, I was looking around at the 4 lane road and at the mini strip mall across the street and thought this is really kinda sad. The mama was probably at a loss as to where to lay her eggs with all the development around. Since there are really no trees or bushes around, she found the mulch at the side of a stone building in the shade as the best bet. That's really wrong.

I was glad to see that the employees, or someone, was empathetic/sympathetic enough to put out some fresh water for the mama.

Makes you rethink priorities when you see more nature displaced for our own selfish conveniences.