Published on Friday, November 21, 2008
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
What has become of the Wilson Park lovebird ducks? I'm referring to the flightless domestic duck and its mate that were rescued from the pond as it was being emptied. Were they successful in capturing and uniting the two? I'm hoping for a happy ending.
- PENNY JENSEN
Carson
Yes, the ducks have been reunited.
Sandie Freeman, part of a mother-daughter animal rescue team that also gathered fish and turtles from the Wilson Park pond as it was being drained and cleaned, said the wild male duck was captured three days later.
Freeman and Corrina Michalak's work to rescue more than 400 fish, a flightless domesticated duck, 50 red-eared slider turtles and a leatherback sea turtle from the park pond was chronicled in an Oct. 29 Daily Breeze story.
The two ducks are now in a rescue facility and will remain together, Freeman said.
Freeman said that during the reunion the two ducks entwined their necks and rubbed them up and down. "It was awesome to watch," she said
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