DUCK & COVER

Cops’ quick quack rescue

LONG ISLAND cops quacked the case Sunday when a mom of 14 ducks lost track of her flock.

Mother’s Day was going swimmingly for the unidentified mother duck until around 9:20 a.m., when all 14 of her ducklings wandered into a storm drain near Aletta Place in Bay Shore.

While the mother duck stood by helplessly, someone called 911.

Soon, Suffolk County police were at the scene.

Officers Jack Ward and Joseph Bianco lifted the storm grate, reached down and grabbed four ducklings.

But the rest of the flock wandered further into the drain, out of reach.

A third cop, Officer Steven Damico, applied a high-tech policing technique to the situation.

Damico downloaded a duck call app to his cell phone. Nine ducklings liked the sound enough to waddle back within the officers’ grasp.

That left one missing duckling. Emergency Service Officer Carmine Pellegrino nabbed that one with a net.

All 14 ducklings were reunited with their mom, and were last seen happily waddling away from the scene.

Make way for ducklings! Suffolk County Officers (l.-r.) Steven Damico and Joseph Bianco, and Jack Ward (below), save babes from storm drain Sunday.