{"id":9126,"date":"2015-06-12T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T22:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2018-06-29T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T05:50:58","slug":"ducks-and-more-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9126","title":{"rendered":"Ducks and more ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year like clockwork, ducks show up in my swimming pool. They hang out for about six weeks, hatch a gaggle of babies, and then waddle off into the sunset&#8211;with a little help, because once baby ducks get in the pool they can&#8217;t get out again.<\/p>\n<p>This year, it happened twice: one pair of ducks showed up in February, and a week after their ducklings hatched in April, another pair moved in.<\/p>\n<p>The first batch had six babies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2015\/ducks2015-4.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>After six years of this, we have duck rescue down to a science: first fish them out with the pool net, then deposit them near the fence so they can jump through to the other side. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RlxKBJFg7yg?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The second batch was bigger &#8212; ten I think, but I didn&#8217;t get a good count. This time the nest was right by the wall so I was able to get a picture before they headed for the pool.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2015\/ducks2015-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Everybody into the pool!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/d9BqNQwXaHk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rosy does not like the ducks in her territory. After the little ones were evacuated, she inspected the area thoroughly, then peed nearby for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2015\/ducks2015-2.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Usually they walk up into the open space behind the house, but for some reason this mama decided to lead her babies down past my neighbor&#8217;s yard. I caught their cat snooping around a few minutes after this, but by then I couldn&#8217;t see where the ducks had gone. Hopefully the cat couldn&#8217;t, either.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2015\/ducks2015-3.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year like clockwork, ducks show up in my swimming pool. They hang out for about six weeks, hatch a gaggle of babies, and then waddle off into the sunset&#8211;with a little help, because once baby ducks get in the pool they can&#8217;t get out again. This year, it happened twice: one pair of ducks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,13],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-ducks-in-the-pool","tag-great-outdoors","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}