{"id":8817,"date":"2019-12-29T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2019-12-30T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:00:05","slug":"last-week-of-the-year-wk-52-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/last-week-of-the-year-wk-52-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week Of The Year — wk 52 – bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, sometime during the year, I must have added an extra post. So here is a bonus. This afternoon I headed down to the Platte River to check out the bird life. At this time of year, there are several hundred Northen Shovelers in this section of the river. However, they are very skittish, so it is difficult to approach them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pair Of Northern Shovelers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There was one Hooded Merganser that I found. The banks of the river are wooded, so one has to wait until birds come out of the shadows. I waited patiently until the Meganser paddled down into a clear area for this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lone Hooded Merganser.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Several Shovelers were grooming themselves. While doing this, they often flap their wings. I made several images while this male Shoveler proceed with flapping his wings. This was the best one that shows his outstretched wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Northern Shoveler, Flapping Wings.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Finally, close to where I had parked, were some Canada geese. This group allowed me to get really close, so I made a portrait of one individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada Goose Portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That concludes my Project 52 work for the year. Best wishes for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, sometime during the year, I must have added an extra post. So here is a bonus. This afternoon I headed down to the Platte River to check out the bird life. At this time of year, there are several hundred Northen Shovelers in this section of the river. However, they are very skittish, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1686,1685,25,1673,1020],"class_list":["post-8817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-project52","tag-canada-goose","tag-merganser","tag-river","tag-shovelers","tag-south-platte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t