Saturday, April 30, 2011

Pennsylvania: Greenwich Township police rescue ducklings trapped in Pohatcong Township drain

PENNSYLVANIA -- A group of ducklings trapped in a Pohatcong Township storm drain got a hand up from Greenwich Township police this afternoon.

Greenwich Township police officer, Sean McLaughlin, uses a make-shift
 snare to reach into a storm drain. Express-Times Photo | TIM WYNKOOP
  
Greenwich Township police officers, Scott Moeller, left and Sean
McLaughlin, stand by as a New Jersey State Dept. of Transportation worker
removes the storm drain cover, to allow police access to the trapped ducklings.
Express-Times Photo | TIM WYNKOOP

A Greenwich police officer used a snare to lift up the squeaking ducklings, one by one, from the drain.

Police said the mother duck and her brood were on the Greenwich side of Route 22 and then got snarled in traffic as they crossed near New Brunswick Avenue.

 
 
 
 
Greenwich Township police officer, Sean McLaughlin, holds a duckling
he rescued from a storm drain. When asked what the duckling's name
was, he replied, "Lucky". Express-Times Photo | TIM WYNKOOP

It's not clear how the ducklings got separated from their mother or in the storm drain, but police said they'd try to reunite them.

(Lehigh Valley Live - April 30, 2011)