Up the block from UPrep, on NE 85th St, sits a home. The house itself looks like most on the street, but the difference lies in the front yard. A waddling of rubber ducks. More than 2000 of them. 

“We like to go paddling,” Robert McFerrin said. “We would find the decoys that people have lost, and we just brought the decoys home and put them in the yard. We would decorate the decoys. We put little Santa hats on them.”

Robert and his wife LaFaye are the two behind the ducks. They have been decorating the ducks for about 15 years.

“One spring, we had those plastic eggs you get around Easter time,” McFerrin said. “We had those plastic eggs underneath the ducks like they were sitting on eggs, and then somebody broke those eggs apart and put little rubber ducks like they’d hatched. And ever since then, people have just been bringing us ducks.”

The duck house sits just two blocks down the street from Wedgwood Elementary, meaning a lot of children walk and drive past the ducks every day.

“We get a lot of positive feedback,” McFerrin said. “They’re little rubber ducks, so what’s not to enjoy?”

The two change the decorations of the ducks to match different holidays and sporting seasons. The current decoration is to celebrate the Kraken’s season opener.

“I have to say my favorite is probably the 12 duck Days of Christmas,” McFerrin said.

The community has embraced the ducks as a local landmark. Neighbors even take the ducks on their vacations.

“Someone took this duck from our yard and he’s this little violin player and has his suitcase, and then they traveled around Spain,” McFerrin said. “They took pictures of this duck in all these spots in Spain.”

The ducks live just west of 35th Ave NE on NE 85th St.