We found one lone, what we believe to be a mallard egg, in our ornamental grass. Should we do anything?
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Leave it be. The mom will sit on it when she is done laying. If you go messing with it or moving it, she will not come back to it.
Leave it alone. The duck will come and go until she lays the final egg. She will then sit on it. If you touch it she will think there is a predator around and will not come back.
There is not a lot you can do except just wait and see if she returns. Since there is only one egg and she has not returned, she has probably found what she thinks is a safer place. Mallards usually lay one egg a day and only nest when they have between 8-12 eggs.
If the egg was gone then hopefully she found a safer place to build her nest. It is possible she knew a predator was in that area and her nest would not be safe so she did not continue laying her eggs there.
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