{"id":591,"date":"2020-08-08T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/?p=591"},"modified":"2020-08-15T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T12:16:38","slug":"anas-platyrhynchos-mallard-duck-enjoying-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/nature\/anas-platyrhynchos-mallard-duck-enjoying-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Anas platyrhynchos &#8211; Mallard Duck enjoying Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Day 125 of my 365 Photo Challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After my tour in the \u00d6tztal valley, I went on to the Franconian Forest in the district of Kronach in Upper Franconia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s tour led me through the Langenau Valley, where an extensive network of hunter&#8217;s trails runs through the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one of the small lakes, I came across a group of mallards, which had settled down there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After I had positioned my camera with my telephoto lens, suddenly 2 of the ducks moved towards me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They showed no shyness at all as if I was their parents. Very unusual, as the place is not or only slightly frequented by people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I had the good fortune to photograph the ducks at close range. Sometimes I had to increase the distance to the ducks again and again because I could not capture them entirely in the viewfinder with my telephoto lens (Nikkor 200-500mm F5.6 VR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was practically pressed by the ducks, a dream of every nature photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have fun looking at the photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 125 of my 365 Photo Challenge. After my tour in the \u00d6tztal valley, I went on to the Franconian Forest in the district of Kronach in Upper Franconia. Today&#8217;s tour led me through the Langenau Valley, where an extensive network of hunter&#8217;s trails runs through the forest. At one of the small lakes, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593,"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":[41,3],"tags":[167,264,240,263,6,87,239,52],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-365-challenge","category-nature","tag-bird-photography","tag-frankonia","tag-frankonian-forest","tag-mallard-duck","tag-nature","tag-no-people","tag-nordhalben","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chrisrenk.com\/crp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}