{"id":1253,"date":"2010-03-26T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:57:04","slug":"the-ducks-are-back-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-ducks-are-back-around\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ducks are Back Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long winter of sticking to their pond, the ducks of Parc de Merl have spring fever!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FlyDucks.png\" alt=\"Flying Ducks\" title=\"Flying Ducks\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FlyDucks.png 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/FlyDucks-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re flying all over our part of town, taking long walks around the park, and even naps on the grass. They always travel in twos and threes, unlike their stay-at-home nature the rest of the year. <!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksSitting.jpg\" alt=\"Ducks in Park\" title=\"Ducks in Park\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksSitting.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksSitting-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nCompare with their coping behaviors as the winter dragged through February.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksOnIce.png\" alt=\"Ducks on Ice\" title=\"Ducks on Ice\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksOnIce.png 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DucksOnIce-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nThe most interesting thing so far is the island-based resort that our neighbors just floated to the middle of their pond.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DuckResort.png\" alt=\"Duck Resort\" title=\"Duck Resort\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DuckResort.png 500w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DuckResort-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nI think that we&#8217;re witnessing an anatine version of speed-dating. Will just wants them to keep still, so he can take the photos that I requested this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long winter of sticking to their pond, the ducks of Parc de Merl have spring fever! They&#8217;re flying all over our part of town, taking long walks around the park, and even naps on the grass. They always travel in twos and threes, unlike their stay-at-home nature the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}