{"id":20040,"date":"2014-02-21T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T23:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2014-02-21T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T23:35:31","slug":"dapper-duck-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dapper-duck-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Dapper Duck Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was almost a beutiful day today. There was lots of sunshine, marred only by a few sharp showers that passed over quickly (though I did manage to get caught in one at lunchtime). The morning though was dry, and bright.<\/p>\n

Down at Falmer Pond, the greylags were honking, and I watched pair come in to land on the water.<\/p>\n

\"Greylag<\/a>
\nNote the rather dapper duck in the background. He’s the Muscovy drake, and a fine looking duck if ever there was one. He’s taken a fancy to the park bench and commandeers it most mornings.<\/p>\n

\"Muscovy<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the female Muscovy prefers the leafy fringes around the church. Here she is on the wall by the entrance.<\/p>\n

\"Muscovy<\/a><\/p>\n

She then headed towards the ivy and eventually disappeared through the hedge into a neighbouring garden.<\/p>\n

\"Muscovy<\/a><\/p>\n

One more of the drake. A face like this simply demands a portrait.<\/p>\n

\"Muscovy<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s what I call a dapper duck!<\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was almost a beutiful day today. There was lots of sunshine, marred only by a few sharp showers that passed over quickly (though I did manage to get caught in one at lunchtime). The morning though was dry, and bright. Down at Falmer Pond, the greylags were honking, and I watched pair come in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[977],"class_list":["post-20040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-muscovy-duck","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040","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=20040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}