first born dissappears

They didn’t think about how the baby coots would get back on to the boat once they’d fallen off.
We even built a ramp, but they probably didn’t understand what it was.
SO now, first baby was born on Saturday and was very active on Sunday when we fished him out of the water back to his mother’s wings. But hasn’t been seen since.
Trauma. Pat says he expects they’ll all die. This is not the summer I had planned. Animal death abounds.
We must save the coots! Train them to use that damned ramp! Educate the brutes!
TBC.