> From: "Scott R a y" <mryakima at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Doomed quail chicks
>
> I got out of my car and ran over to look down the drain, only to
> discover 6 dead chicks, plus the two newly doomed chicks in a shallow
> pool of water. This pathetic little disaster had apparently been
> unfolding for several minutes before I arrived. The grate was too
> heavy for me to move.
>
> I would guess that this scenario happens thousands of times each summer.

Several years back when I was still working at UW, I found two ducklings had
fallen through the large opening of a storm drain on Pacific Avenue, and the
frantic mother was quacking around nearby.

Fortunately, I found a burly undergrad to help me shift the lid, grabbed the
ducklings, and restored them to their mother who stood there quacking at me,
all to generous applause from the gathered crowd of a dozen or so onlookers.

For all I know this happens all the time to them as well.

-Josh