<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c81c98be-39c9-4be6-b659-4e8c31362efa/D99DA7E5-4A48-46D0-8281-D840A60D6372/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html">A duckling has hatched safely from a shell despite having been dropped 30ft to the ground by a seagull. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/619E6D31-7D46-43A3-9155-19E625D582D1" alt="Duckling hatches after surviving 30ft fall " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html"><P>The Indian Runner duckling has been nicknamed Houdini by its owner as a result of his miraculous survival. </p> <P> The seagull snatched the egg from a nest and flew off with it in its beak. Having become scared, it then dropped the egg which bounced on paddock grass. </p> <P> Barrie Tolley, 57, the farmer who found the cracked egg, feared the duckling would die. But he put it into an incubator to give it a chance of survival. </p> <P> The following day it began to hatch, and it fought its way out over a period of five hours. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html"><P>Unusually, it came though the side of the egg rather than the top, as that was where the cracks were. </p> <P> Mr Tolley, who runs the Rare Breeds Farm, Totnes, Devon, took a series of photographs to show the cracks growing larger and the tiny feathers emerging. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3080121/Duckling-hatches-after-surviving-30ft-fall.html">"Houdini is clearly a lucky little thing. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D99DA7E5-4A48-46D0-8281-D840A60D6372/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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