A wonderful mother's day story!

[marylander1940]

Canada goose sits on burning nest to protect eggs

 

A mother Canada goose that bravely sat on its six eggs in a nest that was deliberately set afire has been deemed healthy enough to someday be released back into the wild after it was rescued by a wildlife specialist in Erie County, Ohio.

 

Tim White, wildlife specialist for Erie Soil and Water Conservation District, was walking back to his car with his daughter after finishing some paperwork at the office Sunday following church when he noticed smoke coming around the corner of the building.

 

Checking it out, they discovered a Canada goose sitting on a nest that was on fire.

 

“It wasn’t blazing like a bonfire,” “You could see a little blaze around the nest.”

 

White and his daughter raced back into the office, gathered water sample buckets used for a local stream testing program, filled them with water and put out the fire.

 

“She was doing the motherly thing,” White told the Sandusky Register. “She was very protective of those eggs. She took the brunt of the heat and the fire.”

 

http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/canada-goose-sits-on-burning-nest-to-protect-eggs/#WpqOxepvZOBKOMYh.97

 

More:

 

http://www.hngn.com/articles/90957/20150508/mother-goose-heroically-guards-her-unhatched-eggs-after-her-nest-was-set-on-fire.htm

 

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/sites/www.sanduskyregister.com/files/styles/large/public/20150503_135259.jpeg?itok=CiIiuVK6

 

http://media.sunherald.com/smedia/2015/05/07/17/39/709-n2Z7q.AuSt.55.jpeg

 

http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/11dff1a/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F41%2Fb42d98c27d9782e235dc9f90a2ab24%2Fmedia%3A0fc67ace48d049cabb1a355a0b0cc632GooseRehabFire.JPEG

[bigvalboy]

Love this!!!

[+ purplekow]

While this story does show how strong a maternal instinct some animals have, it also shows the blatant cruelty of some human beings. Fortunately for this goose, some vigilant human beings came along before the goose was cooked.

[rvwnsd]

As purplekow said, it is appalling how cruel some people can be. Thank God that man smelled the fire and checked it out.

 

Someone ought to find whoever set the next on fire and set THEM on fire.

[anotherjohnindupont]

Canada goose sits on burning nest to protect eggs

 

A mother Canada goose that bravely sat on its six eggs in a nest that was deliberately set afire has been deemed healthy enough to someday be released back into the wild after it was rescued by a wildlife specialist in Erie County, Ohio.

 

Tim White, wildlife specialist for Erie Soil and Water Conservation District, was walking back to his car with his daughter after finishing some paperwork at the office Sunday following church when he noticed smoke coming around the corner of the building.

 

Checking it out, they discovered a Canada goose sitting on a nest that was on fire.

 

“It wasn’t blazing like a bonfire,” “You could see a little blaze around the nest.”

 

White and his daughter raced back into the office, gathered water sample buckets used for a local stream testing program, filled them with water and put out the fire.

 

“She was doing the motherly thing,” White told the Sandusky Register. “She was very protective of those eggs. She took the brunt of the heat and the fire.”

 

http://www.grindtv.com/wildlife/canada-goose-sits-on-burning-nest-to-protect-eggs/#WpqOxepvZOBKOMYh.97

 

More:

 

http://www.hngn.com/articles/90957/20150508/mother-goose-heroically-guards-her-unhatched-eggs-after-her-nest-was-set-on-fire.htm

 

http://www.sanduskyregister.com/sites/www.sanduskyregister.com/files/styles/large/public/20150503_135259.jpeg?itok=CiIiuVK6

 

http://media.sunherald.com/smedia/2015/05/07/17/39/709-n2Z7q.AuSt.55.jpeg

 

http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/11dff1a/2147483647/resize/652x%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F41%2Fb42d98c27d9782e235dc9f90a2ab24%2Fmedia%3A0fc67ace48d049cabb1a355a0b0cc632GooseRehabFire.JPEG

 

Wonderful story of courage!

[samhexum]

A wonderful mother's day story!

 

Quick-thinking police officers came up with a novel way to rescue a family of ducklings swimming to their doom in a drainage pipe: a duck calling app.

 

Officers played the app on their phone and lured the wayward ducklings back to safety where they were reunited with their mom.

 

Fourteen ducklings fell into a storm drain Sunday morning in the Bay Shore community of Suffolk County, New York.

 

Police said it happened near the Napa Auto Parts store on Aletta Place. The ducklings' mother was waiting nearby.

 

Someone called 911.

 

Officers removed the grate and grabbed four of the downy chicks. But the others swam deeper into the tunnel.

 

Officer Steven Damico downloaded a duck calling app to his phone and played it. The ducklings responded to the sound and swam back into reach.

 

Police were able to grab nine more of the ducklings, but one was unswayed by the quacking app.

 

An emergency services officer arrived and retrieved the reluctant duckling with a net.

 

All of the ducks waddled off with their mom.