{"id":35563,"date":"2026-06-18T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35563"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:19:09","slug":"the-search-for-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=35563","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061802.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA search is under way in Abingdon. There have been posters up for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere out there &#8230; is Dave.<\/p>\n<p>Dave &#8230; the duck.<\/p>\n<p>The picture supplied on the poster is typical for a male mallard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag26\/2026061801.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nGreen head.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow bill.<\/p>\n<p>Two orange feet.<\/p>\n<p>I also believe he is partial to bread and occasionally says &#8220;Quack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This video shows just part of the search. No ducks were questioned for longer than was absolutely necessary while making of this video.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Search for Dave\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcUGNL3QTG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search is under way in Abingdon. There have been posters up for quite some time. Somewhere out there &#8230; is Dave. Dave &#8230; the duck. The picture supplied on the poster is typical for a male mallard. Green head. Yellow bill. Two orange feet. I also believe he is partial to bread and occasionally [&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-35563","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\/35563","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=35563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}