{"id":680,"date":"2011-06-01T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=680"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:36:52","slug":"nesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/06\/nesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BlogJun0111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BlogJun0111-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681\" title=\"BlogJun0111 Mallards\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BlogJun0111-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BlogJun0111-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BlogJun0111.jpg 1337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Carol discovered that there is a female Mallard duck with ducklings living in one of the stairwells that lead down to the basement under our building. When she took the photo below, she didn&#8217;t want to get any closer for fear of disturbing the mother duck. The babies are hiding under their mother&#8217;s breast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carol left some greens and a dish of water for the ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where the actual nest was. It doesn&#8217;t look like it was down in the bottom of the stairwell; perhaps one of the babies fell down the stairs, and the mother is down there protecting them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol discovered that there is a female Mallard duck with ducklings living in one of the stairwells that lead down to the basement under our building. When she took the photo below, she didn&#8217;t want to get any closer for fear of disturbing the mother duck. The babies are hiding under their mother&#8217;s breast. Carol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/06\/nesting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nesting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","category-summer-dry-season","tag-dabbling-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12936,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/12936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}