{"id":2813,"date":"2009-10-06T19:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2009-10-06T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:45:18","slug":"ducky-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Ducky Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped some shots this morning of a ducks flying overhead. Poor ducks will reverse course sometimes if they see something pointed at them &#8230; like a camera lens. If you make a trip to heavily hunted turf like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfg.ca.gov\/lands\/wa\/region2\/graylodge\/index.html\">Gray Lodge<\/a> or the areas around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosumnes.org\/\">Cosumnes Preserve<\/a>, you&#8217;ll see what skittish really looks like. The slightest footfall will send them flying and scampering. I wish they didn&#8217;t have to be so terrified. But they do. And I try not to traumatize them further with any surprise moves with my camera.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize until I offloaded his image that this Mallard drake was giving me a serious look on the fly by. I can&#8217;t say what he was thinking but a few captions come to mind. The shot &#8212; and the close crop:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2814\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2814\" title=\"mallardlook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook.jpg\" alt=\"Eye of the Mallard - \u00a9ingridtaylar\" width=\"680\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook-400x299.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eye of the Mallard &#8211; \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2817\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2817\" title=\"mallardlook3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mallardlook3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Crop\" width=\"214\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Crop<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Taken at Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds in San Rafael, California.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped some shots this morning of a ducks flying overhead. Poor ducks will reverse course sometimes if they see something pointed at them &#8230; like a camera lens. If you make a trip to heavily hunted turf like Gray Lodge or the areas around Cosumnes Preserve, you&#8217;ll see what skittish really looks like. The slightest footfall will send them flying and scampering. I wish they didn&#8217;t have to be so terrified. But they do. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=2813\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}