{"id":3054,"date":"2016-06-04T10:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:25:58","slug":"on-the-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"On the Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a couple of evenings this week on the Connecticut River between Wilder and Hanover and have finally seen the duckings we hadn&#8217;t seen when we paddled earlier in the day.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3051\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wood-ducks-4880.jpg\" alt=\"Wood ducklings with mama\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wood-ducks-4880.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wood-ducks-4880-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wood-ducks-4880-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood ducklings with mama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3052\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mama-on-guard-4912.jpg\" alt=\"Mama mallard on guard\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mama-on-guard-4912.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mama-on-guard-4912-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mama-on-guard-4912-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama mallard on guard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We saw ducklings of varying ages, some families are new born, others are several weeks old.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3056\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/young-mallard-4869.jpg\" alt=\"Young mallard duckings with mom\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/young-mallard-4869.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/young-mallard-4869-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/young-mallard-4869-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young mallard duckings with mom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3053\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/teenage-ducklings-playing-4847.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard adolescents playing.\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/teenage-ducklings-playing-4847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/teenage-ducklings-playing-4847-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/teenage-ducklings-playing-4847-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard adolescents playing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The geese flew by.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3050\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/geese-4806.jpg\" alt=\"Canada geese\" width=\"468\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/geese-4806.jpg 468w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/geese-4806-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/geese-4806-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada geese<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>This mallard male had a funny expression.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3049\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mallard-4772.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mallard-4772.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mallard-4772-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mallard-4772-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a couple of evenings this week on the Connecticut River between Wilder and Hanover and have finally seen the duckings we hadn&#8217;t seen when we paddled earlier in the day. We saw ducklings of varying ages, some families are new born, others are several weeks old. The geese flew by. This mallard male &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the Connecticut&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,90,55,127],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadian-geese","tag-ducklings","tag-mallards","tag-wood-duck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3S4pT-Ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","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=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}