Seven fowl-smelling ducklings that fell into a seven foot sewage tank are rescued

Seven fowl-smelling ducklings that fell into a seven-foot sewage tank have been rescued.

The tiny birds were spotted in the Thornton-Le-Dale sewage treatment plant in Pickering, North Yorkshire.

The RSPCA were called and managed to fish them out of the seven-foot tank, as reported by Need To Know.

They were taken to safety at a wildlife rescue on Tuesday (15 Jul).

RSPCA worker Caitlin Houston found that the ducklings had been split up into two separate tanks.

Caitlin donned her lifejacket and gloves and used a reach and rescue pole and a net to carefully rescue each of the seven ducklings.

Seven ducklings were rescued from a seven-foot sewage tank in North Yorkshire by the RSPCA after falling in and getting trapped without their mother. — The seven ducklings that fell into the seven-foot sewage tank were rescued. (Jam Press/RSPCA)

She said: “Thankfully, the ducklings were in good health but just completely trapped.

“I managed to rescue them from the fowl-smelling tank, and although not very pleasant for me or the ducklings, I’m so glad that I was able to help them.

“Once contained, we looked everywhere to try and find their mum.

“We walked around the nearby field and stream but had no luck at all, sadly, so I transferred them to a local wildlife rescue who will care for them until they are old enough to be released back into the wild.”