@cambridgeuniversity: 🦆 Duck walks are one of many traditions for our Cambridge Colleges every spring! 🚣 Generations of ducks have nested within Colleges since at least the 1960s and probably well before, and there is a great tradition of our porters helping them safely to the River Cam. 🎩 This week, the team at Corpus Christi College found a mother duck incubating her eggs underneath a shrub in Old Court. It fell to veteran porter Lee Peters to start them on their journey to the river. 🚦 Porters held back traffic on Trumpington Street so the procession could cross over to St Catharine's College, where their porters opened the front gates and gave them permission to cut across the grass. 🦆 Finally, they hopped up the stairs into Queens' College, went through two courtyards, traversed the Mathematical Bridge and finally took a dive into the River Cam for their first swim as a family. #UniversityOfCambridge #CambridgeUniversity #Cambridge #Ducks #Ducklings #Nature

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