A family of ducks backed up traffic on Storrow Drive this morning, in what has to be an attempt to recreate a scene from Robert McCloskey’s children’s classic Make Way for Ducklings.

At the peak of rush hour traffic, Melissa Mostow came to a screeching halt when a family of ducks briefly blocked both eastbound lanes of Storrow Drive.

“The mother duck managed to hop up on the median, but the ducklings were so little, they couldn’t get up there,’’ Mostow said. “The mother looked frantic. She was hopping up and down.’’

Mostow described the chaotic scene.


“There was lots of honking and yelling. I didn’t know what to do, but they moved over enough for us to pass. I called the police.’’

Massachusetts State Trooper Dustin Fitch confirmed to Boston.com that officers did respond to a 911 call about “ducks on Storrow Drive.’’

“By the time they got there, there were no ducks,’’ Fitch said, adding that responding officers also did not see any sign of duck corpses.