Captain Dwight Weinberger of the Calgary Fire Department stalks a mother duck and her ducklings on a busy stretch of Memorial Drive East Wednesday morning The deparment got the call from a motorist that the ducklings were perilously close to the road and, since the Fish and Wildlife people were some time away, the Station 23 crew responded. Mom was corralled after about half an hour and the babies soon after. This is Weinberger’s last week on the job after 23 years with the department. He said this was his first duck rescue and that on a scale of all his high stress rescues, this one ranked pretty high.

Photo/Text: Ted Rhodes