Ok, I firstly have a confession, I have never been to the Stockbridge Annual Duck Race before today and that was not the only first but the rest I have put up in separate blog listings this week!
I bought a duck necklace for £5 which they were selling for the occasion at the bridge!
Here is one of the Duck Wardens, I liked how he was almost a mirror image of the Anthony Gormley statue which you can see behind him in the distance!
We met Kingston and Marvin & Carly and him had their usual greetings and then watched and waited for the action to start!
Dexter too had a great vantage point to view the race.....
Then at exactly 3pm, the ducks were thrown over the bridge....
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.....and are sent off and on their way by a Piper!
and the Duck Wardens follow the ducks down the river to make sure they finish the race.
Now if you want to see it on video and listen to the bagpipes, then click on the video below!
