Duck hatched from seagull fall egg
A lucky duckling has safely hatched from an egg despite being dropped 30ft by a seagull.
The greedy gull was unable to carry its haul back to the nest and the egg fell to the floor as the bird soared.
Barrie Tolley, who saw the egg get snatched and then dropped, decided to took a closer look at it and was amazed to find it was still in one piece, though covered with fine cracks.
The farmer - who runs Rare Breeds Farm in Totnes, Devon - took the egg home and popped it in an incubator hoping the animal had somehow survived.
Over a period of five hours the little duckling escaped his shell and incredibly imaginative Barrie gave the duck the name Houdini.
After 10 days the plucky ducky has now recovered from his ordeal and Barrie has taken it to rejoin his mother and four siblings.
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