{"id":53156,"date":"2016-06-02T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=53156"},"modified":"2016-06-02T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:38:13","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-a-dozen-ducklings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/06\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-a-dozen-ducklings\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: A Dozen Ducklings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\/\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p>One of the great things about being on Garden staff is the opportunity, twice each year, to access the grounds when they are closed to the public\u2014namely during our exhibition staff orientations. The first one happens before the summer exhibition (like <em>Frida<\/em>), and the second takes place ahead of the <em>Holiday Train Show<\/em>. I usually arrive about an hour and a half early so I can do some shooting.<\/p>\n<p>We recently had our orientation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/impressionism\"><em>Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas<\/em><\/a>. While walking along Magnolia Way, I spotted this mama Wood Duck. I noticed a few fuzzy heads peeking out as well. Soon, a few heads turned into 12 as they went for a swim! Never a dull day at NYBG.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQ-tEJbUhLo\" width=\"570\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few fuzzy heads turn to a dozen as a mother Wood Duck and her ducklings head out for a swim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":53157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[1360,192,4616,4619,4955],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ducks.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dPm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53161,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53156\/revisions\/53161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}