I came across this scene today at the Boston Public Garden. A group of people were surrounding a gaggle of duckings. They'd been following them for two hours. People were shouting, "Don't touch the ducklings!" "Stay away!" "Give them room!"
As far as I could tell there was no mother duck around, but there were a lot of surrogates on cell phones calling the authorities to help save the ducks.
"You've got to get down here right away!"
"Don't Touch!"
It'd make a great story for the Herald and/or Fox 25!