It was a ducky day for the mom of a missing flock of waterfowl in Massapequa, L.I. on Saturday.
Four baby ducks were waddling behind their mother when they fell eight feet through a grate into a storm drain near Old Sunrise Highway and Sunrise Highway.
Someone called the cops when they saw the distressed mother duck wandering dangerously close to traffic.
Six Nassau County police officers responded to the sewer drain, and heard the ducklings’ helpless cries below.
Unable to remove the sewer grate, the four patrol officers and two Emergency Service Unit officers put their heads together to save the day.
After tracing the path of the sewer to a nearby reservoir, the officers found a series of mother duck calls on YouTube, and played them on their cell phones to coax the ducklings to safety.
The flock soon waddled out of the sewer to the waiting officers.
After cleaning them up, the cops reunited the ducklings with their mom in a creek behind the Alfred G. Berner Middle School.
In 2018, Suffolk county police officers used a similar tactic to rescue 14 ducklings after they wandered into a storm drain in Bay Shore.