Charity responds after finding ducklings 'scattered' in road

Appeal for volunteers to help during 'baby bird season'

Volunteers are being sought to hand-rear ducklings on the Isle of Man.

Local charity Manx Wild Bird Aid has made the appeal after the start of 'baby bird season'.

Yesterday the charity was called to Poortown Road, in St John's, after a car hit and killed a mother duck and six of her ducklings. 

Volunteers found them 'scattered across the road' – after searching in the hedgerows they were able to find six which had survived.

They're now being looked after and will be released when they've grown up. 

The charity says it can lend anyone interested in helping it throughout the season the equipment necessary to look after baby birds.

It's warned that they are 'adorable but extremely smelly and messy'.