Wayward duck gets sucked down Lake Berryessa Glory Hole

Weeks of heavy rain led to the Lake Berryessa Glory Hole spilling over on Tuesday, sucking in water and one unlucky duck, according to SFGate.

A video taken around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday and posted to a Solano County community Facebook group showed a duck being pulled in. A caption on the video read, “Duck took a wild ride but did make it out on the other side!" But many commenters wondered — could the poor duck really survive?

Rick Fowler, a water resources technician with the Solano County Water Agency, who took the video, told ABC 10 he saw the duck come out the other side of the spillway.

"It shot out of there like a bullet," Fowler told the station. "It flew through the turbulence and came out of the water shaking water like it didn't know what had happened."

But Melissa Vignau with the Solano Irrigation District told the station that there's no way the duck actually made it through. Fowler maintained that he was able to run over to the other end in time.

"It flew up over the turbulence and landed on the calmer water in the creek," he said.

The last time the hole at Lake Berryessa spilled over was on Feb. 17, 2017, for the first time in more than 10 years at the time, according to a 2017 SFGate article. This spillway acts as a bathtub drain, collecting overflow water from the Napa County reservoir.