{"id":1240,"date":"2011-02-04T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-02-04T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T13:12:50","slug":"duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, you are not going to bang your head. \ud83d\ude42 I’m talking about the bird!<\/p>\n

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Mallard Drake Foraging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took a ride to Long Island Sound the other morning and loved the shimmer of the sunrise on the water around these Mallard ducks.<\/p>\n

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Mallard Ducks at Sunrise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, the birds down by the water this morning were not very habituated to humans. While I was the only person there (it was 18 degrees f), the birds wanted to have nothing to do with me. These images are taken with a 600mm f\/4 with a 1.4 TCe-III. Still not enough glass which is the story of my life!<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, you are not going to bang your head. \ud83d\ude42 I’m talking about the bird! I took a ride to Long Island Sound the other morning and loved the shimmer of the sunrise on the water around these Mallard ducks. Unfortunately, the birds down by the water this morning were not very habituated to humans. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-landscapes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t