BATON ROUGE — A mother duck at the LSU lakes laid her eggs in a tree, leading to several of her ducklings needing to be rescued on Sunday afternoon.
John Newman, also known as “The Duckman,” discovered the eggs and made it his mission to see that they hatched and rejoined their mother in the water when the time was right.
Newman started feeding the ducks at the LSU lakes in 2022 while his wife was in hospice care. Since then, he’s been following the mother duck’s journey from a golden duckling, giving her the name “Goldie”, to her new adventures as a mother…