A mama duck laid eight eggs a few weeks ago in a planter on the rooftop terrace of the Planet Word museum at 13th and K streets NW.

A D.C. museum dedicated to words will spend the next few weeks with a secondary mission, tracking when new ducks will hatch after a "mama mallard" made the muse ...

This is the adorable moment 12 tiny ducklings leapt down a waterfall under the watchful eye of their proud mother. Photographer John Hayward captured the spring scenes as the family of ducks splashed ...