{"id":7845,"date":"2019-11-15T23:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T07:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7845"},"modified":"2019-11-16T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:00:07","slug":"ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday I went for a walk along Charleston Slough in Palo Alto at high tide. It was a gray day, and the light seemed to make the colors of the ducks appear more dramatic than usual. Looking at the ducks helped me forget the crazy stuff that&#8217;s in the news these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Green-winged-Teal.jpg 1665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption><em>Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca carolinensis)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon-1200x830.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/American-Wigeon.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>American Wigeon (Anas americana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ruddy-Duck.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-gray-color\">Notes: Common and Latin names from Dunn and Alderfer, Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th ed. (2017); however, the AOU now assigns American Wigeon to its own genus, <em>Mareca<\/em>. Photos: inexpensive superzoom camera (cheaper than your smart phone) and free image manipulation software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went for a walk along Charleston Slough in Palo Alto at high tide. It was a gray day, and the light seemed to make the colors of the ducks appear more dramatic than usual. Looking at the ducks helped me forget the crazy stuff that&#8217;s in the news these days. Notes: Common and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/ducks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ducks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[322,731,284],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-dabbling-ducks","tag-diving-ducks","tag-palo-alto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}