Todd Clausen

@ToddJClausen

University of Rochester public safety officer Jeremy Beh pulls 11 ducklings from a drain on campus.

It wasn't the type of call Jeremy Beh typically gets.

On Sunday, a call came to the University of Rochester's public safety team for a report of ducks stuck in a drain.

In all, 11 ducklings had fallen down a drain. Mama duck frantically circling was nearby, quacking when Beh arrived.

"As I got closer, she stepped away and was still quacking away," said Beh, a 36-year-old Fairport resident who joined the school's public safety department nearly a year ago. "I shined a flashlight down at them, heard them quacking back … and saw a few eyes."

He removed the grate, got in the drain and started pulling out the young birds, which were running around at the bottom of the drain.

"They all (became) pretty docile and willing to get out of the drain as quickly as possible," said Beh.

The ducklings then joined their mom after being pulled from the drain, getting into formation and then going about their day.

A campus video camera caught the entire rescue operation, which took about four minutes. The video posted to the University's of Rochester's Facebook page collected roughly 33,000 page views in about 18 hours.

"With all the bad stuff going on right now, I think it's a little nice to see something lighthearted," Beh said. "It's the small things in life that truly matter."

TCLAUSEN@Gannett.com