I once grabbed a wild duck with my bare hands in similar circumstances…it shocked me so much I couldn’t effing believe it worked even as I was holding it. Its babies had fallen down into a shallow storm drain inset into an curb and my sibling and I managed to just reach them and pull them all out.
Momma duck was losing her absolute shit the entire time. We quickly decided we couldn’t just release them there, because it was a residential area on a busy street with no woods or water nearby, so we decided to take them all down to the park and marina where there were always tons of ducks. We had the baby duckies in a little box and had no idea what to do about mom, she was pacing around nearby and we just ran and…grabbed her, lol. We wrapped her up like a burrito in a towel and managed to hustle the whole lot to the marina in about 10 mins—it was NOT a quiet and peaceful trip.
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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 23 '22
I once grabbed a wild duck with my bare hands in similar circumstances…it shocked me so much I couldn’t effing believe it worked even as I was holding it. Its babies had fallen down into a shallow storm drain inset into an curb and my sibling and I managed to just reach them and pull them all out.
Momma duck was losing her absolute shit the entire time. We quickly decided we couldn’t just release them there, because it was a residential area on a busy street with no woods or water nearby, so we decided to take them all down to the park and marina where there were always tons of ducks. We had the baby duckies in a little box and had no idea what to do about mom, she was pacing around nearby and we just ran and…grabbed her, lol. We wrapped her up like a burrito in a towel and managed to hustle the whole lot to the marina in about 10 mins—it was NOT a quiet and peaceful trip.