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Mallard Duck Nesting at Home Depot

Aired May 30, 2002 - 06:49   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: There's no place like home. There's no place like Home, Depot that is, at least for one mama duck. Yes, she has built her nest in a place that bills itself as America's home improvement center.

We get details on the Home Depot duck from reporter Brad Woodward (ph) of CNN's Minneapolis affiliate KARE.

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BRAD WOODWARD, KARE-TV REPORTER (voice-over): It should come as no surprise that a store dedicated to all things home would attract those with a nesting instinct.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look at that, she's got eggs in there.

WOODWARD: Smack dab in the middle of Home Depot's busy garden center, a stack of mulch bags has been transformed into a makeshift maternity ward.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We stop out every day to say hi to her, see how she's doing. She's a little active -- more active today so I don't know what's up, if we're getting near the end or what.

WOODWARD: No one knows why mama mallard chose a pile of pulverized wood as the place to hatch her brood. Still more puzzling, how she keeps her cool amidst all this chaos.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Constantly there is the commotion of a forklift replenishing these bags of mulch all around her and she just does not get disturbed very easily.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know what I think is amazing is there's so many people here that go back and forth and there she sits. It's just -- it's funny.

WOODWARD: Also amusing, the fact that a creature so out of place can maintain such a low profile. While the novelty of a retail duck turns some heads...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a mommy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is a mommy one. What do duckies say?

WOODWARD: ... most customers roll by without a glance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's pretty good, kind of blends in with the colors, doesn't it?

WOODWARD: A nest of wiggly hatchlings will be harder to ignore. In a matter of days, they'll enter the world surrounded by bricks and barrels. Not exactly wild kingdom, but what the heck, it's home.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The little ducks will always come back here. It's their little birthplace.

WOODWARD: With producer Dana Feed (ph), Brad Woodward, KARE 11 News.

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COSTELLO: Did you say awe.

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