WingedAvenger
06-19-2008, 01:02 AM
Momma duck waddles over a mile to rescue her sewer-bound ducklings (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026801/Six-ducklings-rescued-sewer-mother-followed-miles-raised-alarm.html)
Short attention span version:
Trapped in a dark sewer, the six little mallard ducklings found themselves cut off and facing an uncertain future.
Their only hope of seeing daylight again lay with their mother - who they had last seen more than a mile away as they were sucked into a drain.
Rescue seemed impossible. Yet somehow the mother duck had managed to follow her offspring for more than a mile, apparently listening to their cheeps of distress at manhole covers as they were swept along below ground.
Her incredible journey took her across a busy roundabout, countless roads, a metro rail line, a housing estate, two school playing fields and hospital grounds.
The trail finally ended when she waddled on to Barrasford Close in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where her chicks suddenly stopped.
And it was there, standing over another man-hole cover, that the mother remained for the next four hours until local residents heard chirping coming from down below.
Short attention span version:
Trapped in a dark sewer, the six little mallard ducklings found themselves cut off and facing an uncertain future.
Their only hope of seeing daylight again lay with their mother - who they had last seen more than a mile away as they were sucked into a drain.
Rescue seemed impossible. Yet somehow the mother duck had managed to follow her offspring for more than a mile, apparently listening to their cheeps of distress at manhole covers as they were swept along below ground.
Her incredible journey took her across a busy roundabout, countless roads, a metro rail line, a housing estate, two school playing fields and hospital grounds.
The trail finally ended when she waddled on to Barrasford Close in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, where her chicks suddenly stopped.
And it was there, standing over another man-hole cover, that the mother remained for the next four hours until local residents heard chirping coming from down below.