Another Duck Tale
May 12, 2009 at 5:11 pm Tina Hay Leave a comment
Momma Duck waits—and squawks—while the Physical Plant staff rescue her 11 ducklings on the east end of campus. Click to see bigger version.
It’s that time of year.
From Deborah Blythe in Penn State’s Office of Physical Plant comes this story and photo from an incident on campus the other day, out near the “home management houses” along College Avenue:
Momma Duck and her 11 ducklings were walking along and came to a storm drain in front of Benedict House. Momma Duck walked across the grate and all 11 of her babies fell into the storm drain. Momma yelled for help and called and flapped. Some of our OPP employees came to the rescue immediately. The drain was pulled up and a brave employee crawled down into the drain and, along with lots of helpful employees, rescued the ducklings and returned them to their mommy duck.
My question is, What was the mother duck thinking, leading her kids across a storm-drain grate? But I’m glad the story had a happy ending.
Tina Hay, editor
Entry filed under: University Park campus. Tags: Deborah Blythe, duck rescues, mallard ducks, Office of Physical Plant.
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