Cute story: Duckings freed from sewer...with IPad recording of mother's quack
TWO ducklings were freed after an iPad recording of the mother duck's quack was used to coax them out of a sewer.
A couple of holidaymakers visiting Burton Bradstock in West Dorset discovered the mother duck quacking loudly near a manhole with her other eight offspring, Wessex Water said.
After having a closer look, they could hear a squeaking sound coming from further down the drain and called Wessex Water to see if they could unlock the manhole and retrieve the ducklings who were only a few days old.
Sewerage technicians Brendan Sutcliffe and Keith Carter enticed the ducklings out of the drain and back into view with the sound of their mother's quack on the iPad before catching them using a colander and a badminton racket.
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