{"id":2551,"date":"2014-07-04T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2014-07-04T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T01:17:33","slug":"mallards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2551","title":{"rendered":"Mallards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I headed out to check on the nesting loons. I was last there <a title=\"Nesting Loon\" href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2494\">two weeks ago <\/a>and I was hoping that there would be some chicks. No luck&#8230; however, there was an adult still sitting on the nest, so there is still hope.<\/p>\n<p>I first observed the loons on the nest on <a title=\"Loons\" href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2464\">10 June<\/a>&#8230; 25 days ago. Their incubation period is cited as 26-29 or 26-31 days, so hatching should be any day now. \u00a0I&#8217;m hoping to head back tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>The female mallard and her brood of four duckling were still in the same area, so I photographed them instead of the loons.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=284 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I headed out to check on the nesting loons. I was last there two weeks ago and I was hoping that there would be some chicks. No luck&#8230; however, there was an adult still sitting on the nest, so there is still hope. I first observed the loons on the nest on 10 June&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[154,122],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}