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A duck hen sits on a nest on an awning attached to the Sherwood Building in downtown Spokane. A year ago, the email story of Joel Armstrong, a Sterling Savings Bank employee, saving the falling ducklings from that same nest became a viral hit. With “mama duck’s” return, Sterling Savings Bank has started a program called “Bucks for Ducks”, which will run through May 29 to raise money for Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Anyone can be entered for a chance at winning cash awards and to name one of the ducklings, for a dollar donation. You can check out the SR’s Duckcam here. (Jesse Tinsley/Spokesman-Review)
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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brentandrews on May 06 at 8:52 p.m.
Arguably, ground squirrels are just as cute as ducks, yet the ground squirrels get scorched and their homes collapsed around them and their children, and the duck becomes a celebrity. But people are fickle. I think this duck’s run of good luck is just temporary. As soon as she stops cracking everyone up, looking cute and shooting out ducklings for people to catch, someone will be calling up the fellows from parks and rec to bring down a Duckenator or something.