{"id":1442,"date":"2009-07-28T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1442"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:35:41","slug":"recession-duck-no-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/recession-duck-no-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Recession Duck (no bill)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I spent lunchtime at local pond, and among the varied bird life this immature duckling was the star. It was swimming happily, drinking from the pond and clambering on to the grassy bank to feed. So I think it fair to say that it&#39;s coping well, despite the severe lack of a bill. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/duckling_n_bill_2707095263.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/duckling_n_bill_2707095268.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There were of course other ducks in the vicinity, rather better endowed in the bill department&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/duck_2707095192.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>But just as eager to show off their feathers&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/duck_2707095276.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And a young moorhen, proudly showing off its new shoes \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/moorhen_young_2707095223.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>While all the time, on the far side of the pond a pair of geese were playing a game of &#39;Who-can-stand-on-one-leg-longest&#39;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/geese_2707095214.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Back in the garden tonight, the bold vixen made an appearance. She&#39;s been showing up on the trail cam (as has one of the cubs), but it&#39;s been about a week since our paths have crossed. Her eye seems to be healing well.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fox_bold_vixen_2707095282.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens, except the vixen. The shot of her was with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[1160,1128,498],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-fox","tag-geese","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}