Dozens join the flock for the annual duck race
Dylan Lyons feeling ducky following the race. Photos by Brandy Muz
A bushel of ducks.
The race begins!
Ducks spill into the canal.
Quacking their way to the canal.
A spectator watches the ducks round the curve.
The ducks on their way to Patrick Marshall.
Arrrrgh! A duck pirate without its ship.
Patrick Marshall gets the winning duck.
Ducking around in the grass.
Kat Jones scoops up a bunch of ducks.
Kamryn Lyons shows off her winning duck.
All smiles from Patrick Marshall.
A handful of ducks.
No ducks are getting past Patrick Marshall.
Kat Jones corrals some ducks. 
Jackson Jillman making sure the ducks don't get stuck.
Dylan Lyons feeling ducky following the race. Photos by Brandy Muz
A bushel of ducks.
The race begins!
Ducks spill into the canal.
Quacking their way to the canal.
A spectator watches the ducks round the curve.
The ducks on their way to Patrick Marshall.
Arrrrgh! A duck pirate without its ship.
Patrick Marshall gets the winning duck.
Ducking around in the grass.
Kat Jones scoops up a bunch of ducks.
Kamryn Lyons shows off her winning duck.
All smiles from Patrick Marshall.
A handful of ducks.
No ducks are getting past Patrick Marshall.
Kat Jones corrals some ducks.
Jackson Jillman making sure the ducks don't get stuck.
With a floating finish, the Friends of the Wareham Free Library completed yet another rubber duck race.
Rubber ducks took to the pond of A.D Makepeace Sunday, May 17 to raise funds for the Wareham Free Library. The race had participants decorate their ducks to toss in the river to get a chance at a Kool Kone gift card.
In a kayak, Library Director Patrick Marshall was in the water to collect the winning duck. Paddles out and ready, he and a team of duck-catchers made sure the yellow rubber birds didn't remain in the Tihonet Pond Canal.
Marshall said the event is fun and "brings a lot of feel good," feelings. With specators watching the ducks plummet from a waterfall, he said many love to particpate.
"It's always a nice community event," he said.
Marshall chucked Colleen Curriel's winning duck onto the shore. Bringing in a duck that she made to look like herself, she said she's always had plans to join in on the race.
"I just moved back to Wareham from living in Vermont and I've always wanted to do it but I had to work," she said.
Curriel would consider herself a lucky duck, winning a disco dance not long ago. She didn't have plans set to celebrate her victory, but did say her Kool Kone gift card would be put to use soon.
"I'm just lucky about some things it seems," she said.
Coming in at third place, 5-year-old Kamryn Lyons painted her duck to have a smiley face on it so that "it'll be happy." She planned to immediately spend her gift card on cotton candy ice cream.
"I really wanted to win and I won," she said. "I'm so happy."
