Ducklings leap off building top to rejoin Mother Duck.

[Fla Dem]

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Mother Nature continues to amaze me.

[a kennedy]

1. Awwwwwwwwwwwww

I love nature until it has to eat.

[csziggy]

2. In the wild they jump from higher than that

I went looking for this video:

And found this one:

But then I found this one - I held my breath for most of the way through:

[progressoid]

3. Wow, that last one.

[csziggy]

5. I know - I hate heights but I couldn't take my eyes off it

Those poor little birds! At first I thought, OK, this is cool, he'll end up in the water. Then he started bouncing off the rocks.

Compared to that, dropping off the roof of a small building is nothing!

[Fla Dem]

6. OMG! I never realized. Why do the mom's nest so high up?

What brave little ducklings. They last one was so frightening. Bouncing off the cliff wall made me feel so scared for the little baby. So sad 2 were lost.

[csziggy]

7. The height keeps them safe from predators

I don't know what goes after barnacle geese babies or eggs, but with the wood ducks, raccoons would eat the eggs long before they hatched if they could reach the nest.

[aidbo]

4. I canard-ly believe it!