{"id":79,"date":"2008-04-19T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/wood-duck-surprise\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T13:18:30","slug":"wood-duck-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/wood-duck-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when client Melissa Holcomb was visiting my office Karen told us that something strange was going on.  There was a duck perched in a tree in our backyard.  I had to wrap a few things up on the computer before I could come upstairs and when I arrived Melissa was looking through the binoculars and sure enough, there was a duck just sitting on a limb.  They let me have a look.  I got my digital camera, put it on full telephoto, and took this picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wood Duck Perched in Tree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/WoodDuck1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later, after I had uploaded the pictures to the computer, I zoomed in on this picture.  I know it&#8217;s not too good but it&#8217;s the best you can do with a simple &#8220;point-and-shoot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sketchy Close Up of the Wood Duck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/WoodDuck2.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I did a net search and found this picture so you can see what they actually look like.  Our view through the binoculars was much better than my telephoto view and this is really what we saw.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture of a wood duck from the internet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.butchieboy.info\/WoodDuck3.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a day in the life when you live in the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when client Melissa Holcomb was visiting my office Karen told us that something strange was going on. There was a duck perched in a tree in our backyard. I had to wrap a few things up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/04\/19\/wood-duck-surprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}