{"id":22856,"date":"2023-06-22T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22856"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:06:00","slug":"common-merganser-and-ducklings-mergus-merganser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22856","title":{"rendered":"Common Merganser and Ducklings (<em>Mergus merganser<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22858\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22858\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Common Merganser and Ducklings (Mergus merganser)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_20230622_008891.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Merganser and Ducklings (<em>Mergus merganser<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I went to the glacier this afternoon. By &#x2018;the glacier&#x2019; I mean the Mendenhall. We had been in the valley at a cemetery looking for the grave of one of Cathy&#8217;s mom&#8217;s siblings (we found it) and since we were close, we decided to head to the glacier and see what we could see. It was mostly cloudy, but not raining and still quite pretty. There are arctic terns (<em>Sterna paradisaea<\/em>) nesting on the shore of Mendenhall Lake and I was able to get a few decent photos of them. But my favorite is this one of a common merganser (<em>Mergus merganser<\/em>) with ducklings on its back and following it along. There were ten ducklings in all, although you can only see nine in this photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I went to the glacier this afternoon. By &#x2018;the glacier&#x2019; I mean the Mendenhall. We had been in the valley at a cemetery looking for the grave of one of Cathy&#8217;s mom&#8217;s siblings (we found it) and since we were close, we decided to head to the glacier and see what we could &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2091,61,3374,3375,362,761,3318,3373,3372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22859,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}