A group of yoga moms kept a watchful eye over not only their own babies, but a brood of ducklings this morning.

At about 10:30 a.m., a mother duck was walking her 10 babies from Collier Street toward the lake. The yoga moms decided they’d help them reach the water safely as they had to cross through downtown streets.

“We saw them jump off a planter up on Collier and followed them down,” said Tracy Matthews.

But when they reached the Memorial Square area, the ducks went under a parked car and five fell into a storm grate.

“They walked under the parked car and fell through. The mom kept coming back with her other babies. We laid a blanket down so they wouldn’t fall through,” said Maranda Cook-Schulze.

The yoga moms put down their mats and waited for the driver of the parked car to return, allowing the city workers they called for help to rescue the ducklings.

More than two hours later, after the parking meter had expired, the car's owner returned, quickly moved her car and left.

City operations workers began their rescue and pulled out three dead ducklings. At about 12:50 p.m., city crews ended the mission, after they could not retrieve the other two that fell.

City workers could not go into the enclosed space, due to health and safety regulations, as risks included sewer gases.

The moms had also reunited a duckling injured during the jump from the planter with its mother, which took the remaining ducklings to the lake. The moms also rescued a hatchling, which a city employee took to an animal hospital.