Dix Hills Mom Helps Rescue Ducklings Trapped in Sewer

This article was written by Scott P. Moore. 

A mother duck and her ducklings got a Mother's Day rescue from another mom on Sunday.

Fox 5 New York reports Janet Blair, a Dix Hills mom, became an animal rescue worker when she noticed a group of ducklings at the bottom of a sewer in Deer Park on Sunday evening.

She said she noticed the mother duck on a nearby lawn and wondered how it had gotten there.

"I don't know, it just caught my eye. I don't know -- I was meant to help this duck," Blair told Fox 5.

With her son Elijah's use of a flashlight app on his smartphone, the two noticed a group of ducklings that had fallen into a nearby sewer. She said she refused to leave until the ducklings were safely out, but found local animal shelters closed and called the police.

Suffolk County Police sent in a special rescue unit, rescuing the ducklings from the sewer and reuniting them with their mother nearby. The group waddled off soon after. Officers guessed the ducklings got washed down the sewer from the rain runoff from this past weekend.

"It just makes me feel great," said Blair. "I did a good deed and it makes me feel better as a mother. I helped another mother of another species – so I feel good."