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VANCOUVER -- A civilian member of the Vancouver police has a new take on the term "bird brains" after a duck pestered him until he helped rescue its eight ducklings trapped in a storm sewer.
Ray Petersen was walking directly under the Granville Bridge on Wednesday when the duck grabbed him by the pant leg.
Then it waddled around him, quacking.
"I thought it was a bit goofy, so I shoved it away," Mr. Petersen said yesterday.
But the duck, likely a mallard, wouldn't give up. Making sure it still had Mr. Petersen's eye, it waddled up the road about 20 metres and lay on a storm-sewer grate. Mr. Petersen watched and thought nothing of it. "But when I started walking again, she did the same thing. She ran around and grabbed me again."
So when it waddled off to the sewer grate a second time, Mr. Petersen followed.
"I went up to where the duck was lying and saw eight little babies in the water below. They had fallen down between the grates."
Mr. Petersen phoned police Sergeant Randy Kellens, who brought in two constables. "When they came down, the duck ran around them as well, quacking," Mr. Petersen said. "Then she lay down on the grate."
While Sgt. Kellens looked into the grate, the duck sat on the curb and watched. The two constables marshalled a tow truck that lifted the grate out, allowing the ducklings to be picked up, one by one, with a vegetable strainer.
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