Mother's Day Miracle: 6-Year-Old Boy Spots Abandoned Gosling Near Busy Road, Finds It a New Family

With spring comes new life in all shapes and sizes, and invariably, at some point, some of those new lives will need a little extra help.

This time of year, 🦌Wildlife centers are inundated with baby critters of all types. Obviously, the best solution is for locals to know how to put baby birds back in nests, determine whether or not animals are injured and be able to tell if the babies are old enough to be venturing out on their own, but plenty of babies still make their way to rescues.

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When Hawk Commerford of Schaumburg, 🏞️Illinois, spotted a gosling wandering by itself near a busy intersection on Mother’s Day, he and his father jumped in to help, according to WGN-TV.

Hawk, 6, and his dad Pete looked around for the gosling’s parents, but they were nowhere to be found.

Pete then called the Willowbrook Wildlife