A Regina family taped a butterfly net to the end of a hockey stick to rescue four ducklings after they fell through a sewer grate.

The ducklings were reunited with their mother after a father-and-daughter team used a distinctly Canadian approach to save them from the sewer, the family told CTV's Canada AM on Thursday.

Ceiligh Dodds was walking through the neighbourhood with a friend when she saw the birds fall through the grate. Not knowing what to do, she raced for help from her father and brothers.

"She showed up on her bicycle in a bit of a panic," her father Dennis Dodds recalled. "I didn’t know if I could do anything, but I thought I’d have a look."

Dennis saw the four ducklings in the sewer grate and asked his daughter to grab their butterfly net to scoop them out.

But Ceiligh went a step further to make sure the net would reach them. The 15 year old grabbed a hockey stick and attached it to the butterfly net.

Her brother Seamus captured the event on video. As the first duckling made an appearance, Ceiligh shrieked with excitement at saving their tiny friends.

"It felt really, really good that we saved these ducks," Ceiligh told CTV Canada AM's Marci Ien.

But the family's challenge wasn't quite over. The group still hadn't found the ducklings' mother. Dennis put the ducklings into a bucket, and everyone in the group searched the neighbourhood to reunite the feathered family.

"We couldn’t find her at all," Dennis said. "[Then] I looked across the street and there she was."

The mother was on a neighbour's lawn with the rest of her eight babies, so Dennis approached her and released the bucketful of ducklings on the lawn.

Since the rescue took place, the Dodds have been on the lookout for the waterfowl. But so far, the ducks haven't made an appearance.