You may think me a monster, but I have to admit that I think baby ducks are cuter than baby humans. Well, at least brand newborn babies. And of course I think my own children are cuter than baby ducks, but you get what I mean right? Baby duckies are INCREDIBLY cute!So this weekend I spent a lot of time cleaning and needed to get out of the house to do something fun. I was out of ideas so I let Britton chauffeur us away to a place of his choice. He picked the perfect destination. The Palo Alto Baylands Park has a walking trail, a nearby airport, and a duck pond! We watched planes landing, and took a walk along a trail which I cut short in my eagerness to see if there were any baby ducks at the pond.
At first I was a little disappointed I only saw one duck family and they only had like three babies! As we got closer to the duck family all of a sudden they only had one baby... Moving closer to the water, I saw in horror this skimmer/filter thing filled with about seven trapped baby ducks! The grate over it kept the larger ducks out, but the baby ducks were just small enough to fall in and not be able to get back out because the water was continuously pouring in to a lower level inside.
Britton quickly went to their rescue while I made sure our own son didn't get too close to the nasty water and need rescuing himself. Britton scooped up the little squirming ducks one-by-one and they sped off as fast as they could to their parents. At this point I was very close to tears. (I blame raging pregnancy hormones.) Will really wanted to hold the baby duckies. This was probably one of his few chances. Unless this happens often at the duck pond and in that case we should go save them again tomorrow.
Here's the happily reunited ducky family in the distance. 
