{"id":9073,"date":"2011-02-24T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:32:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:32:58","slug":"this-is-not-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9073","title":{"rendered":"This is not a Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to photograph ducks in this morning&#8217;s fresh snow. As I approached the pond, I noticed that <i>ALL<\/i> of the Mallards (every single one) were sitting on the banks.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the reverb of a huge splash in my periphery and thought, wow, big fish. Sturgeon-caliber fish.<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;it&#8221; resurfaced, &#8220;it&#8221; had a face. With whiskers.<\/p>\n<p><i>North American River Otter &#8211; Lontra canadensis<\/i><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_9074\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter1860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter1860.jpg\" alt=\"River Otter in Puget Sound\" title=\"River Otter in Puget Sound\" width=\"560\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9074\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puget Sound River Otter - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_9077\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter86031.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter86031.jpg\" alt=\"North American River Otter\" title=\"River Otter\" width=\"750\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9077\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Otter Face - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_9075\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter8602.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/riverotter8602.jpg\" alt=\"River Otter - Lontra canadensis - in Seattle\" title=\"North American River Otter\" width=\"560\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9075\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lontra canadensis - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to photograph ducks in this morning&#8217;s fresh snow. As I approached the pond, I noticed that ALL of the Mallards (every single one) were sitting on the banks. I felt the reverb of a huge splash in my periphery and thought, wow, big fish. Sturgeon-caliber fish. When &#8220;it&#8221; resurfaced, &#8220;it&#8221; had a face. With whiskers. North American River Otter &#8211; Lontra canadensis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,1],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-mammals","category-uncategorized","tag-otters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","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=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}