--- description: A man saved several baby ducklings by catching them each as they fell off a ledge. title: Watch This Heroic Man Catch All the Falling Baby Ducklings image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This Heroic Man Catch Baby Ducklings as They Fall Off a Ledge by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 29, 2016 2:35 PM CUT by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 29, 2016 2:35 PM CUT A [heroic](http://time.com/4371837/fathers-day-heroes/?iid=sr-link4 "undefined") Florida man saved a bunch of ducklings that were falling from a ledge at Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., last Saturday. One never knows when they’ll be doing a ride-a-thon at an amusement park, and it will start unexpectedly raining ducklings. But when it does, hopefully a man of character, determination and reflexes like Eric Peln will be there on [duck rescue duty](http://time.com/4005152/animal-rights-duck/?iid=sr-link3 "undefined"). According to Channing Deren, Peln’s girlfriend, who captured it all on Facebook, a duckling fell on her shoulder off of a nearly 30-foot-high ledge when Peln snapped into action. “Eric just went into beast mode and started catching ducklings from the sky!” his girlfriend wrote in a Facebook post, which so far has 80,000 views. Faced with multiple tumbling ducklings who all seemed to conclude that it was a rock solid idea to leap off a ledge to get to their mother, Peln was determined to save the day. Some of them fell together on a joint accidental suicide mission, but Peln still managed to break every last duckling’s fall. Deren proudly reports that only one duckling suffered a broken leg, and that the rest joined their mother. This video could later be used as evidence if her boyfriend’s good guy cred is ever questioned. Watch below. \[H/T [News96.5](http://www.news965.com/news/news/local/florida-man-catches-ducklings-falling-ledge-busch-/nrpD3/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4385425/man-catches-falling-ducklings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4385425/man-catches-falling-ducklings/"},"headline":"Watch This Heroic Man Catch Baby Ducklings as They Fall Off a Ledge","datePublished":"2016-06-29T14:35:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:51.102Z","description":"He breaks every last one's fall","url":"https://time.com/4385425/man-catches-falling-ducklings/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4385425/man-catches-falling-ducklings/","name":"Watch This Heroic Man Catch Baby Ducklings as They Fall Off a Ledge"}}]}] ```