{"id":53261,"date":"2016-06-15T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=53261"},"modified":"2016-06-13T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:40:36","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/06\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-balancing-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: Balancing Act"},"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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?attachment_id=53262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53262\"><img data-attachment-id=\"53262\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/06\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-balancing-act\/attachment\/img_2117\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,808\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SX60 HS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1465537321&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;111.511&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Drake Mallard\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-300x202.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-1024x689.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"Drake Mallard\" width=\"571\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-1024x689.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Mallard drake (<em><span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">Anas platyrhynchos<\/span><\/em>) \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shy Mallard strikes a rather precarious pose in an attempt to avoid the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":53262,"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":[4970,2416,2417,1360,192,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2117.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dR3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261"}],"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=53261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53264,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53261\/revisions\/53264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}