The duck's owners thought she had flown away two weeks ago - only to find her stuck in a drain.
Plumbers were left surprised when they were called to rescue a duck stuck in a drain.
Underground Service Engineering staff rushed to a farm at Sandford, on the Isle of Wight, on Saturday night after the owner called for help to rescue the stricken bird. Company director Frazer Lowe said it was "the strangest thing" he had found in a drain during his nine-year career.Mr Lowe said he initially thought the call was "a joke" but he soon realised "the seriousness of it" and said he was determined to save it.
He and his colleague Cole Grundy immediately went to the site and located the bird using a CCTV camera.They then put some water down the drain to allow the duck to move and returned in daylight the following morning when they rescued the duck after a five-hour effort.The 25-year-old explained that the owners of the duck thought it had flown away about two weeks earlier but they then heard a noise coming from a drain pipe and realised she was stuck inside.
"We were not going to give up on the situation until it was done, we needed to get her out," Mr Lowe said.
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