Associated Press reports Pack the Duckling was found on Mt. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill. He was found early this morning, according to a laconic tweet from Boston Police:
BRONZE DUCK stolen from Public Garden has been discovered abandoned on a Beacon Hill Street.
He's been helping the ducklings get to the Public Garden for decades now, and now he could use a bit of help.
If you took any photos of Officer Mike at Beacon and Charles streets in 2005 or 2007, let me know. The actual Boston officer who played Officer Mike those years would love photos of himself in action. He was wearing his father's uniforms from back in the day - his father was also a Boston officer - and he'd love to have a picture or two or three:
... I have had hundreds of photos taken with the ducklings but with all those times I do not have one myself. ...
Today was Mother's Day, so that means it was also the annual "Make Way for Ducklings" parade from the Common to the Public Garden by way of Beacon Hill. As always, there were scads of impossibly cute kids dressed as ducks (with the odd Officer Mike thrown in - including one actual member of Boston's Finest who, dressed in an old BPD uniform, helped get the ducks across Beacon Street today). And as the Harvard Marching Band approached Beacon Street, they sang out a song whose lyrics seemed to be: "Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!"
Perhaps it was my imagination, but it seemed like more parents got dressed up this year:
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