{"id":2218,"date":"2012-03-17T00:03:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2218"},"modified":"2013-11-06T20:46:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:46:02","slug":"pretty-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Nothing extraordinary to report from today, but the ducks were pretty and happy to pose for the camera.<\/p>\n<p>I caught this group while they were still asleep this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122764.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This very pretty female was photographed later in the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122876.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122979.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The male mallards were also parading around.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122903.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the next ducks (the white ducks and the runner ducks), a local filled me in on a little of their history. Apparently they were domestic ducks which have been relocated to the pond. Whatever their background, they are clearly thriving, and the male runner seems determined to add to the local stock. He is by a long way the most rampant drake on the pond.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122914.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/duck_1603122931.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This of course isn&#39;t a duck, but I liked the shot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/greylag_1603122950.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And to close, a first for me at the local pond. It doesn&#39;t look unusual, but it is in fact a lesser black backed gull. The key identifier in the shot are the yellow legs. The upper side of the wings (not in shot) are a very dark grey which clearly distinguished it from the herring gulls. The <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/ducks-and-gulls\" target=\"_blank\">greater black backed gulls<\/a> are larger, tend to have pink\/flesh coloured legs and almost jet black wings.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lesser_black_backed_gull_1603122961.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 \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D  and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/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":[980,989],"tags":[1160,846,847],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duck","tag-grelag","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","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=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}