Remember biking along a country round and seeing a mated pair of ducks fly too low into the traffic, the male duck got hit and went under two cars before someone stopped. Ducks are easy to separate by gender, the male is brightly coloured and the female a plain brown. The duck was badly shaken but alive, there was a tear of blood from its eye, and the lady in the car decided to take it to a vet, I helped her wrap the duck in a blanket and her passenger held it on her lap. As she drove away I went back to my bike, only to see the female duck, its mated partner, sitting on the hedge watching us all ...