{"id":10706,"date":"2021-03-07T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10706"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T18:10:59","slug":"sunday-shots-03-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10706","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Shots, 03\/07\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can remember, way back when, when I was just starting birding and I had just begun this blog (nearly 9 years ago now!), I always wanted to photograph male Hooded Mergansers. They are a fabulous looking bird, and while these days I&#8217;m not quite as enamored with them as I used to be, it was nice to happen upon one this morning at Greenwood Lake. The drake was accompanied by two females and I had some good timing and was able to get some decent shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~Male Hooded Merganser at Greenwood Lake, 03\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/030721-HOME-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>~One of two female Hooded Mergs at Greenwood Lake, 03\/07\/21.~ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can remember, way back when, when I was just starting birding and I had just begun this blog (nearly 9 years ago now!), I always wanted to photograph male Hooded Mergansers. They are a fabulous looking bird, and while these days I&#8217;m not quite as enamored with them as I used to be, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=10706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday Shots, 03\/07\/21&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[6,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2MG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10709,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10706\/revisions\/10709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}