Dad rescues baby ducks from storm drain

Four ducklings trapped inside a storm drain in Canada were rescued thanks to a quick-thinking dad, after Ceiligh Dodds, 15, saw four baby ducks fall into the sewer and rushed to her dad to help her rescue them.

“I was terrified,” Ceiligh told CBC News. “It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life.”

“I felt so bad for them when they were cheep-cheep-cheeping,” Dennis said. “There was no way they were going to get out of that sewer.”

He had the brilliant idea to attach a butterfly net to a hockey stick to lift the baby birds from the sewer below.

“I didn't know whether we’d be able to scoop any of them up at all,” he said. “[I'm] relieved and very pleased with myself.”

The successful rescue mission was a family affair, with all the kids taking part, from assisting in the rescue, to researching what to do with the rescued ducklings, to capturing the event on camera.

Once retrieved from the storm drain, the ducklings were released back into the wild, where they were taken under the wing of an adult duck.

“She adopted them if they weren’t hers,” Dennis figured.

We’re hoping they all lived happily ever after.