{"id":683,"date":"2012-11-23T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:05:12","slug":"ducks-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks in the Desert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having such fun going to a tank in the Preserve every morning to document what might be visiting. (For those who might not know, a tank is a man made reservoir created in ranching days for watering livestock). We had a good bit of rain in early October which almost filled the tank. Even small bodies of water will entice migrating water birds to stop and I have documented a few species so far. Mallard Ducks, Green-winged Teal Ducks, Least Sandpiper and Killdeer. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click any photo below to see full size. Then click photo to go to next one.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/mjensen-birds-mallard-ducks-1662\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-686\" title=\"mjensen-birds-mallard-ducks-1662\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mjensen-birds-mallard-ducks-1662-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/mjensen-birds-green-winged-teal-ducks-2962\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mjensen-birds-green-winged-teal-ducks-2962-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mjensen-birds-green-winged-teal-ducks-2962\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-687\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/mjensen-birds-least-sandpiper-2573\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-688\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mjensen-birds-least-sandpiper-2573-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mjensen-birds-least-sandpiper-2573\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-688\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/mjensen-birds-killeer-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mjensen-birds-killeer-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mjensen-birds-killeer-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-689\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/?attachment_id=694\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/mjensen_tank-2411-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mjensen_tank-2411\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-694\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having such fun going to a tank in the Preserve every morning to document what might be visiting. (For those who might not know, a tank is a man made reservoir created in ranching days for watering livestock). We had a good bit of rain in early October which almost filled the tank. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/ducks-in-the-desert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ducks in the Desert?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5,3,32,4,7],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/mscblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}