{"id":6781,"date":"2017-03-03T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:43:18","slug":"ring-necked-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=6781","title":{"rendered":"Ring-necked Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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~A male Ring-necked Duck shows off his namesake, the maroon ring around his neck. Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/02\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not very often that I get\u00a0good photo ops with ducks because,\u00a0as we all know, ducks tend to keep\u00a0their distance. I think it would take some work, planning, and likely a photo blind to\u00a0actually\u00a0get really good shots of most ducks (at least from the shore – I’ve had much better luck from the kayak). Yesterday\u00a0afternoon I found a group of Ring-necked Ducks at Upper Greenwood Lake that just didn’t seem to care. I saw the birds from my car, I pulled over and parked, but\u00a0unfortunately the only way to approach was on foot. I did so slowly, fully expecting the birds to swim in the opposite direction, leaving me wanting. I must be on a roll because they did no such thing and instead just\u00a0carried on as before. I photographed them for about 20 minutes; when I left they were still in the same area going about their business. I\u00a0then continued towards the black dirt, where I was going to spend the evening participating in the DEC’s Raptor Survey. It was an excellent\u00a0pit stop\u00a0which\u00a0yielded a nice series\u00a0of pics of these RNDUs, in really nice light.<\/p>\n

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~RNDU at Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/02\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~I think this female Ring-necked Duck has some admirers… Upper Greenwood Lake 03\/02\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~This is one\u00a0handsome devil. RNDU at Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/02\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~The females are a little less dramatic but just as attractive to me. RNDU female at Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/02\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~RNDUs at Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/20\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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~RNDU drake at Upper Greenwood Lake, 03\/20\/17.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It’s not very often that I get\u00a0good photo ops with ducks because,\u00a0as we all know, ducks tend to keep\u00a0their distance. I think it would take some work, planning, and likely a photo blind to\u00a0actually\u00a0get really good shots of most ducks (at least from the shore – I’ve had much better luck from the kayak). … Continue reading “Ring-necked Ducks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","category-photos","category-swimmingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1Ln","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781","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=6781"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6781\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}