Officers ‘Quack the Case;’ Save Baby Ducklings

When a mother duck's babies fell through a grate into a drain in Oracle Park Sunday morning, San Francisco police officers quickly quacked the case.

Averting a flap, officers who heard the mother's frantic quacking around 6:30 a.m. Sunday rescued the ducklings. The babies were apparently walking over a metal grate in the parking lot, fell through the grate into a drain and couldn't get out, police said.

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When @SFPDSouthern officers spotted a mother duck frantically quacking at a storm drain they were determined to quack the case!

Upon closer inspection, several baby ducklings had fallen through a metal grate and were trapped. They wasted no time in rescuing them! 👏 pic.twitter.com/F25GEyuv1M
— San Francisco Police (@SFPD) May 29, 2022

Officers removed the grate and carefully returned the ducklings to their mother.

Proving conclusively that birds of a feather do indeed flock together, the mother duck then led her children back to the San Francisco Bay, police said on social media.