Volunteer ‘duck wardens’ are helping a group of mallards safely waddle across town after they chose a parking lot as the best place to roost with their ducklings.

15 citizens have answered the duck call in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, rotating shifts to personally escort 20 birds to the town center every evening.

The birds start the 15-minute journey from The Cod Beck river at around 8:30pm and head to the market square car park where they sleep until around 4:30am the next morning.

Mystery surrounds the reasons why the ducks make the daily trip, but some believe the mothers feel safer sleeping with their ducklings away from riverside predators.

Emma-Jayne Hutchings, one of the volunteers acting as a crossing guard, thinks it might be because the cobblestones they sleep on are warm. Whatev

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