A mother duck brought traffic in central Dublin to a standstill for an annual event on Friday as she marched her seven ducklings to a pond for their first swim.
The duck, encouraged by delighted passersby, was relocating her young from their birthplace in the grounds of Trinity College to St. Stephen's Green, the city's historic public park, around half a mile away.
"She's been doing it for about the last six or seven years now - laying her eggs at the college and then taking the babies to the green," said Trinity groundsman David Hackett.
"Usually she's good and picks an evening when it's quiet to waddle them up the street but sometimes she doesn't and in the past we've had to have the police help us out with the traffic."
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