This Duckling Was Raised By an Owl and They’re So Cute Together

Laurie Wolf is an artist and photographer who loves everything about wildlife. She has various birdhouses (aka nesting boxes) that she and her family have put together.

Recently, when she was inspecting the birdhouses, she noticed a mother wood duck was moving her egg from one of the boxes and flew toward this other box.

“We believe that the duck moved the egg because that nest had been raided – there were eggshells at the bottom of the pine tree where the box is. A day or so after we saw that a screech owl moved into that box,” Wolf told Bored Panda.

One month later, the duckling appeared in the box with the owl. “Seeing the owl with the duckling was honestly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life! It’s still hard to believe.”

“I’m sure the owl hatched the duck egg because she was in the box with it for a whole month,” she continued.

Wolf got concerned about the safety of the baby duck since she knows that owls are naturally predators so she decided to contact a bird expert to take care of it. But the duckling jumped out of the nest box and ran away to a nearby pond after she tried to capture it. She hasn’t seen the duckling ever since. The pond nearby is very hidden and on their neighbor’s private property.