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Saanich Police rescue trio of ducklings from drain

No word whether their names were Huey, Dewey and Louie, but a trio of ducklings are back with their mummy and four siblings after Saanich police officers freed them from a drain in an unusual rescue operation captured on video and shared on social media Monday morning.
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Sgt. Jereme Leslie and a colleague helped rescue three ducklings in Saanich Monday morning. Black Press File.

No word whether their names were Huey, Dewey and Louie, but a trio of ducklings are back with their mummy and four siblings after Saanich police officers freed them from a drain in an unusual rescue operation captured on video and shared on social media Monday morning.

“A colleague and I were standing in the back lot discussing an investigation, when we saw the mother duck with four babies,” said Sgt. Jereme Leslie of the Saanich Police in an interview. “She seemed upset about something, so we walked closer. As we got closer, I could hear cries coming from inside the storm drain. I lifted the drain up and discovered three ducklings inside.”

A video of the rescue shared on social media Monday morning then shows Leslie lifting each of the animals to the safety. Each of them, no worse for wear, then flapped and fluttered away from Leslie towards Mother Duck, who was hiding underneath a nearby vehicle.

“They all [then] waddled off to Swan Lake after being reunited,” said Leslie.



Wolf Depner

About the Author: Wolf Depner

I joined the national team with Black Press Media in 2023 from the Peninsula News Review, where I had reported on Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula since 2019.
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