{"id":176,"date":"2018-04-07T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/?p=176"},"modified":"2018-04-07T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:37:44","slug":"mallards-anas-platyrhynchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/2018\/04\/07\/mallards-anas-platyrhynchos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Spring, a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mallard\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)<\/a> visit our yard. They hang out in our yard for several weeks before moving on to where ever they go. They can usually be found at the bottom of the hill in our backyard, where usually there is flowing water. Occasionally, however, they come up the hill, closer to our house.<\/p>\n<p>I took this photo in 2012 when a <dfn title=\"male duck\">drake<\/dfn> and a <dfn title=\"female duck\">hen<\/dfn> mallard ambled along the sidewalk between our house and garage.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" style=\"width: 793px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks-793x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of two mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) walking down our side walk\" width=\"793\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks-793x1024.jpg 793w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks-768x992.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks-1200x1550.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ducks.jpg 1471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drake and hen mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) walking on the sidewalk between our house and garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Two years later, I took this photo of a drake mallard hanging out on the roof of our garage.<figure id=\"attachment_174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duck-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of a drake mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) on the roof of our garage.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duck-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duck-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/duck-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drake mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) on the roof of our garage.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Spring, a pair of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) visit our yard. They hang out in our yard for several weeks before moving on to where ever they go. They can usually be found at the bottom of the hill in our backyard, where usually there is flowing water. Occasionally, however, they come up the hill, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/2018\/04\/07\/mallards-anas-platyrhynchos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-mallard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcgerik.com\/homestead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}