{"id":2167,"date":"2013-05-09T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2013-05-10T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T04:47:42","slug":"mr-and-mrs-shelduck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/mr-and-mrs-shelduck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr and Mrs Shelduck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130502-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2161\" alt=\"20130502 005\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130502-005-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130502-005-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130502-005.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Shelduck\">Australian Shelducks<\/a> are making themselves at home in the paddock and on the dam, Mrs has the white rings round her eyes and Mr sounds exactly like a <em>zuzzing<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kazoo\">kazoo<\/a>. \u00a0With the breeding season running from June to November, I am hoping it is the same duck that <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/ducklings-on-the-dam\/\">brought her ducklings<\/a>\u00a0to the Dam last July. \u00a0 The ducks are\u00a0\u00a0monogamous and some birds create permanent pair-bonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of Australian Shelducks are making themselves at home in the paddock and on the dam, Mrs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,19,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-028.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}