Rehabbed ducks, geese released to Muddy River

The New England Wildlife Center brought a gaggle of de-oiled waterfowl back to the Muddy River to live out their best bird lives again. It can be hard to hear the people (they didn't want to use speakers that might annoy the birds), so if you just want to see those birds flapping their way back to the water, skip ahead to 6:00.

The center collected as many birds as it could after oil got into the river from Leverett Pond about a month ago. Officials have yet to pinpoint a source for the oil, which spread downstream into the Fenway, coating and sickening birds - some of the birds rescued by the wildlife center died - and creating a foul odor along the river's banks.