{"id":33647,"date":"2025-04-20T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33647"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T20:51:50","slug":"first-ducklings-and-moorhen-chicks-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33647","title":{"rendered":"First Ducklings and Moorhen Chicks of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/25041704.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMy first sighting of a duckling this year was just a single one, accompanied by two parent ducks. It&#8217;s unclear what happened to the rest of the brood. When I returned two days later, there were two parent ducks in the same location \u2014 but the duckling had disappeared.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/25041403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNearby, a pair of moorhens had built a nest not far from the cycle track. It did not look the safest location.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/25041702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nReturning two days later, I spotted the two moorhens again \u2014 this time with five or six chicks, tucked away among the relative safety of the reeds. They weren\u2019t easy to see, blending into their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I am busy on a project for a few days so probably won&#8217;t get to do the blog for a few days. But if anybody sends me a report with pictures then I could use that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first sighting of a duckling this year was just a single one, accompanied by two parent ducks. It&#8217;s unclear what happened to the rest of the brood. When I returned two days later, there were two parent ducks in the same location \u2014 but the duckling had disappeared. Nearby, a pair of moorhens had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}