Ducks make rounds

The duckling in the storm drain photo series made it to Dave Barry's blog. There are comments from all sides underneath. Dave Barry's blog is so popular (I'm guessing) that the photos he points to are inaccessible right now due to all the traffic. Or something.

I also had another friend say she almost linked to the duck photos but they got chopped from her list of posts to make due to lack of time. She pointed me to where she thinks the original post started (?). I don't know because the photos I saw didn't have that writing across the bottom right corner, so it seems to me that was added later.

Other commenters on Dave's blog think the whole thing was just made up in Photoshop. Who knows. I do know that I witnessed a very similar event on my own street, just a few yards away from my house. I didn't see the ducklings fall in, but I was driving my kids home from school (this was before we started homeschooling, so about a year and a half ago) and we noticed the mother duck quacking frantically and peering into the drain. A few other neighbor pedestrians had stopped, too, to see what was happening.

The lady outside of whose house it had happened had called the city, and a little later they sent out two guys who removed the grate and leaned down in there and scooped out the ducklings in a cardboard box. They took off down the street to catch up with the mom, who by then had put some distance between herself and all these humans. I had now parked the car at home and the kids and I had returned on foot to gape. I was really happy the ducks were taken care of like that.