MISSION (NEWS 1130) – Six ducklings have been helped to safety by a group of strangers in Mission.
The young ducks, who were separated from their mother, were spotted in downtown Mission on Tuesday.
Kerri Kincaid says she was driving through when she saw a young man helping the birds cross the street.
“I saw a young man on the highway trying to direct traffic with six little ducklings, and he was trying to herd the poor little things off the highway,” she recalls. “Nobody was pulling over, people just kept driving, so I pulled over, realized I had a dog crate in the back, and I ran down the hill from where I parked and I ran across the highway to see what I could do to help them.”
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However, in the commotion of it all, two of the ducklings apparently ran off into a bush while the other four fell into a storm drain.
“So [the young man] went after the two that ran into the bush and he got one right away, and then he went in after the second one,” she says, adding the second duckling was caught shortly after.
Calling in reinforcements, Kincaid says she phoned her husband to ask if he could bring a net to help get the ducklings caught in the storm drain out. The birds, by this point, had found their way into a pipe out of sight.
Throughout the rescue, Kincaid remembers an RCMP cruiser pulling up to help block traffic while the group tried to coaxed the ducklings into view.
“I was nervous that [the ducklings] weren’t going to come back out,” she says. “And I just had a thought that I’d bring the two that were in the dog crate closer to the storm drain. Generally, if they hear each other, they kind of come closer to one another — they like to be in a group, right?”
Eventually, her plan worked, and the ducklings came out of hiding to where Kincaid’s husband could nab them with a net.
The six rescued birds were taken to a wildlife centre in Abbotsford.
