These ducks are local celebrities and walk the red carpet daily

Every morning at 10:30, Kenon Walker rolls out a red carpet across the hotel lobby in preparation for the first performance of the day. Then he goes to the rooftop to fetch five ducks.

Walker is the duck master of the Peabody Memphis, continuing a decades-old tradition of caring for the resident ducks and leading them on their daily march to and from the lobby fountain. The procession is sometimes watched by hundreds of onlookers gathered around the fountain. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post Save on unmatched reporting. Get your first year for 99¢

every four weeks

“We’ve got to march with smiles in that lobby,” Walker, 45, tells the ducks each morning in a pep talk. “We’ve got to march with purpose.” Duck master Kenon Walker gives the Peabody ducks a pep talk before a marc