Cute Overload: Ducks in the city - a true story


	Cute Overload: Ducks in the city - a true story
hitchhiker08
7-17-2008 12:12 PM
621 views
tags:
ducks, ducklings, nest, birds, eggs
hitchhiker08 says:
Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over? Imagine what it did to Joel!
Add a Comment
Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up
Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from July 17, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6f348688-a0d2-4049-ba63-e1504030771b/8230F4CA-0832-40E5-9A19-EF3D812AAD5C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html" href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html" style="font-size: 11px;">mfrost.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><H3 class="entry-header"><A href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">Duck Darwin Awards</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">Something really amazing happened in Downtown Spokane</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"> a mother duck choose the cement awning outside his window</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">to build a nest above the sidewalk."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/1E8C618F-8949-49C6-AAC9-0DBEEE0CC653" alt="Image4" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">laid ten eggs in a nest</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/2C187125-4F16-4B4A-BF6C-B1CCE3F0F91E" alt="Image3" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"> Monday afternoon all of her ducklings hatched.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/7124B48E-1BFB-4EB2-9AD1-4C645D908581" alt="Image15" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">how the momma duck was going to get those
babies safely off their perch</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">in a</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">urban environment to
take to water</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/C54C58DC-9403-41C2-BABD-055C3C897B17" alt="Image5" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">mother flew down below and started quacking to her babies above. In
his disbelief Joel watched as the first fuzzy newborn toddled to the
edge</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/8EDCD5C7-38BE-4C7F-9574-B92EBA813FFB" alt="Image6" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">As the second one took the plunge, Joel jumped
forward and caught it with his bare hands before it hit the cemen</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/A7F08838-FE41-4D33-8BC5-9F4F9F5CF7A1" alt="Mom, my legs are smooshed to halfsize now, thanks A LOT." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">One by one the babies continued to jump to join their anxious family below</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/2B5B9438-BC28-4999-804F-E882A9E34ED1" alt="Image1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><P> Joel was
able to catch the remaining 8 and set them by their approving mother."</p> <P><A href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/15/image7.jpg"><IMG width="500" height="402" border="0" src="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/images/2008/07/15/image7.jpg" title="2 Blocks? NP. Like water off a duck's back" alt="Image7" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/C15601AB-E535-4CB6-95B2-3254919FFECF" alt="Image7" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">the duck family had only made part of its
dangerous journey. They had 2 full blocks to walk across traffic,
crosswalks, curbs, and pedestrians </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">to get to</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">the Spokane River.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/099D9C2E-C2D7-4328-86EE-6A7716F618AD" alt="Image13" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/9174ABE1-FB0D-4D4A-8FBC-C1F909EBBA82" alt="Image12" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mfrost.typepad.com/img/D66B42FF-8367-43D3-98B5-466FDCD4ACCB" alt="Image10" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/duck-darwin-awa.html">All ten darling ducklings safely made it into the water</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8230F4CA-0832-40E5-9A19-EF3D812AAD5C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard
Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment
Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch
Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map
About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA
Search Options

Today's Top Clips
