{"id":952,"date":"2009-06-26T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/?p=952"},"modified":"2009-11-17T19:51:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:51:44","slug":"mallard-duckings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/mallard-duckings\/","title":{"rendered":"mallard duckings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s finally here and so are ducklings. My first sighting of the tiny yellow and brown\u00a0swimmers\u00a0was on an\u00a0early morning walk around the lakes at Lower Lake Ranch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-953\" title=\"mallard ducklings\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0292.jpg\" alt=\"mallard ducklings\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0292-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clouds overhead reflect white in the dark water while low morning sunlight\u00a0traveled up the valley to light this straggler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-958\" title=\"straggler_duckling\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/straggler_duckling.jpg\" alt=\"straggler_duckling\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/straggler_duckling.jpg 450w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/straggler_duckling-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reflections changed as I moved around the lake. Light changed, too, cloudy one moment, a bit of bright sun the next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-954\" title=\"mallard_ducklings\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0319.jpg\" alt=\"mallard_ducklings\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0319.jpg 450w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/_mg_0319-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer&#8217;s finally here and so are ducklings. My first sighting of the tiny yellow and brown\u00a0swimmers\u00a0was on an\u00a0early morning walk around the lakes at Lower Lake Ranch. Clouds overhead reflect white in the dark water while low morning sunlight\u00a0traveled up the valley to light this straggler. The reflections changed as I moved around the lake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-lower-lake-ranch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}