Pat to the rescue of orphaned ducklings
Published: August 9, 2007
A FEMALE mallard duck living dangerously close to a busy road was run over and killed as she crossed with her brood of ducklings.
Over the last few weeks, she and a male duck had nestled down on a patch of grass on Hoylake Road, Moreton, but concerned residents contacted the Globe, worried for the feathered friends’ welfare.
But the RSPCA refused to remove the ducks from the kerbside to another habitat, for fear of subjecting them to “a great deal of stress and pressure.”
And sadly, tragedy struck when the mallard gave birth to seven ducklings and was struck by a car as she tried to lead them across the road to water.
The ducklings, who escaped unharmed, were taken to the Rock Ferry Wildlife Hospital to be hand reared by animal-lover Pat Seager.
But the three weaker ducklings died leaving two males and two females, which Pat has named Taffy, Daffy, Dibble and Dabble.
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“This is the first time I have reared such young ducklings and fortunately had the correct food available,” she said. “I put them in front of the gas fire to keep their body heat but they were petrified of human contact at first.”
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