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Video: Mother reunited with ducklings in Burnaby’s Central Park

A bunch of ducklings were rescued from circling predators and reunited with their mother thanks to some concerned neighbours. On Saturday, Bruce Causier got a call from his daughter who was hanging out at a friend’s house in Vancouver.
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A mother duck and her ducklings waddle through the grass at Central Park on Saturday. Bruce Causier filmed the reunion after he and some neighbours in a Vancouver townhouse complex helped carry the ducklings 1.3 kilometres to the park after they were separated from their mother during an attack by predators.

A bunch of ducklings were rescued from circling predators and reunited with their mother thanks to some concerned neighbours.

On Saturday, Bruce Causier got a call from his daughter who was hanging out at a friend’s house in Vancouver. She said a mother duck and her ducklings in the area had been attacked by predators, so she and some neighbours had rounded up the remaining ducklings to try and save them, but the mother wouldn’t be caught, Causier wrote online.

Causier went to help. He and the neighbours decided the best thing to do was to walk the ducklings to the closest body of water – a pond at Central Park in Burnaby.

They put the ducklings in a bin and, with the mother following closely behind, walked 1.3 kilometres to Central Park, according to Causier.

“The mother duck followed us across two busy streets then we released the ducklings at a small pond in Central park in Burnaby. It was truly heartwarming to see them reunite. It's so great to see that a small community came together to help another family who was in need of help,” he wrote.

Here's the video Causier took of the journey: