{"id":525,"date":"2020-07-19T15:59:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/?p=525"},"modified":"2020-07-19T15:59:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:59:05","slug":"anas-platyrhynchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/nature\/anas-platyrhynchos\/","title":{"rendered":"Anas platyrhynchos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Day 105 of my 365 Photo Challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the excellent weather, I continued to concentrate on taking pictures of wild birds, plants and insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I had already captured swans and wild geese in my pictures, I tried my hand at wild ducks today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I discovered this example of a mallard duck close to the waterline of our local lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their chicks had just made themselves comfortable in a reed group to spend the next hours sleeping. Like any mother, the lady duck naturally watched over her chicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, she did not consider me a threat and showed no shyness towards me. So I could approach her leisurely to take a full-size picture of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, it is imperative not to keep the animals from their usual activities and to expose them to unnecessary stress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I hope you stick to the same!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 105 of my 365 Photo Challenge. Due to the excellent weather, I continued to concentrate on taking pictures of wild birds, plants and insects. After I had already captured swans and wild geese in my pictures, I tried my hand at wild ducks today. I discovered this example of a mallard duck close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[167,206,234,235,9,22,6,87,201,52],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-bird-photography","tag-day","tag-duck","tag-grass","tag-green","tag-lake","tag-nature","tag-no-people","tag-summer","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}