{"id":2680,"date":"2015-09-02T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2015-09-02T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:44:51","slug":"connecticut-river-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut River 9\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We paddled the Connecticut from Wilder to the Ledyard Bridge this morning and found a family of wood ducks that tolerated 2 ladies in their kayaks watching them doing their duck business for 20 minutes or more.<figure id=\"attachment_2678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2678\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-on-log-5736.jpg\" alt=\"Wood duck family\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-on-log-5736.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-on-log-5736-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-on-log-5736-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood duck family<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2679\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-preening-5737.jpg\" alt=\"Wood ducks preening\" width=\"600\" height=\"230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-preening-5737.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-preening-5737-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wood-ducks-preening-5737-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood ducks preening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2675\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sibling-rivalry-5734.jpg\" alt=\"Sibling rivalry\" width=\"600\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sibling-rivalry-5734.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sibling-rivalry-5734-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sibling-rivalry-5734-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sibling rivalry<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2686\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/woodies-swimming-5660.jpg\" alt=\"Mama wood duck and young\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/woodies-swimming-5660.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/woodies-swimming-5660-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/woodies-swimming-5660-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama wood duck and young<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>In the setbacks near the bridge, there is a nice view of the Montshire Museum, a pretty little waterfall, some geese and ducks.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2673\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Montshire-5694.jpg\" alt=\"Montshire Museum\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Montshire-5694.jpg 399w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Montshire-5694-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Montshire-5694-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montshire Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2676\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/waterfall-5677.jpg\" alt=\"Waterfall near the Montshire.\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/waterfall-5677.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/waterfall-5677-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/waterfall-5677-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterfall near the Montshire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2674\" style=\"width: 569px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quack-5681.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Quack,&quot; said the mallard\" width=\"569\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quack-5681.jpg 569w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quack-5681-142x150.jpg 142w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quack-5681-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Quack,&#8221; said the mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2671\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/geese-5684.jpg\" alt=\"Canada geese\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/geese-5684.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/geese-5684-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/geese-5684-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada geese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A green heron played tag with us on the way back to the boat launch.<figure id=\"attachment_2683\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2683\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-on-dead-pines-5709.jpg\" alt=\"Green heron on a dead pine\" width=\"600\" height=\"570\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-on-dead-pines-5709.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-on-dead-pines-5709-150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-on-dead-pines-5709-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green heron on a dead pine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2684\" style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5768.jpg\" alt=\"Green heron hiding\" width=\"436\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5768.jpg 436w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5768-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5768-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green heron hiding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2672\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5696.jpg\" alt=\"Green heron\" width=\"495\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/green-heron-5696.jpg 495w, 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In the setbacks near the bridge, there is a nice view of the Montshire Museum, a pretty little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=2680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Connecticut River 9\/2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,30,63,56,154,72],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadian-geese","tag-connecticut-river","tag-green-heron","tag-mallard","tag-montshire-museum","tag-wood-ducks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3S4pT-He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}