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Originally Posted by KC911
I dare ya to spend the whole winter up there and still call it "god's country"  . |
Yea, that minus 40 temp makes one step fast.
Great story Dennis.
I came home one day back when I still commuted. A duck was standing in my driveway just quacking. Not something I had seen before. As I getting the mail I walked over to that area, and I could hear lots of "Cheep Cheep" from the storm drain. Evidently mama duck was walking along and hopped up over the curb, but the ducklings all just dropped down into the storm drain. So I put my mail in the kitchen and started investigating.
About that time a lady in our neighborhood that walks her dogs a lot said she had heard the ducklings and called the city, but they said they don't bother with that. About that time one of the other couples from the neighborhood came over to see what was going on. That was too much for mama duck and she flew off.
I got my pickaxe out of the storage shed, and lifted the man hole off the storm drain. Since we have a koi pond we have a fish net that worked great for netting the ducklings. One of the other men went down armed with my flashlight and net and my 5 gallon bucket. He caught all the babies and handed up the bucket of ducklings. I put the lid back on the storm drain about the time my wife got home.
OK, now what to we do with a bucket of ducklings and no mama duck. I remembered a contact and former client of mine that had gotten out of corporate world, and started a wildlife rescue. One of the other couples from the neighborhood volunteered to keep the ducklings until the next day and then drive them the 35 miles to the wildlife rescue facility. They later said the had almost all the other couples and friends bring over children to see the baby ducks in their bathtub.
They took them to the wildlife rescue facility and they have several adult ducks there and about a 100 baby ducklings from all over central Oklahoma that people had brought it. The adult ducks seem to "adopt" all the ducklings and teach them to be ducks, and eventually they all fly away and go back to nature.
We had several households of people that mostly wave to each other at most come together and rescue some wildlife in need.
https://www.wildcareoklahoma.org/