{"id":23523,"date":"2024-03-03T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23523"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T21:04:47","slug":"american-black-duck-anas-rubripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23523","title":{"rendered":"American Black Duck (<em>Anas rubripes<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23506\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23506\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_20240303_015168.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Black Duck (<em>Anas rubripes<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking from the Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge on MacArthur Boulevard down to the canal and then upstream to a point about half way between locks 8 and 9. We enjoyed being out but this is never going to be among our favorite walks, due to the traffic noise. Still, it&#8217;s good to be out. We saw a few American black ducks (<em>Anas rubripes<\/em>) on the canal, along with mallards (<em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em>) and a few turtles, but not much else. There were bluebells coming up, which is always a treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking from the Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge on MacArthur Boulevard down to the canal and then upstream to a point about half way between locks 8 and 9. We enjoyed being out but this is never going to be among our favorite walks, due to the traffic noise. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23523\">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":[3508,3507,3506,61,697,3505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523"}],"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=23523"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23538,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523\/revisions\/23538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}