to raise another family this year! yesterday was hatching day, so with the help of a friend, steve began "operation mallard", carefully lowering the chicks in a bucket to the ground below. despite the howling wind, the mission was successful — and the mother duck was reunited with her 11 ducklings. and if you're wondering why he didn't use the lift, it's because he didn't want to break the bond between the ducklings and the mother, which could happen if she couldn't hear them at any point during theirjourney. in a moment, the bbc news at one with clive myrie in holyrood, and ben brown here in the studio, but now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz. another day of showers, and as the word suggests, they can be on—and—off, fleeting, some of them cold, some of them bringing hail and thunder as well. of course, where the hail falls, it's pretty dramatic, but hailstorms tend to be pretty local. they might be a mile across or so, so further down the road, there could be nothing at all. this is the pattern on the satellite