{"id":9352,"date":"2022-01-12T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T05:18:08","slug":"south-platte-ducks-the-remainder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/12\/south-platte-ducks-the-remainder\/","title":{"rendered":"South Platte Ducks, The Remainder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Sunday, I had so much fun with the Mergansers in the Platte River, so I decided to post images of the other ducks separately. There were several Goldeneye ducks in the river, so I had the opportunity to make several images. I chose this image because of the expression and open mouth of this male bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Male Goldeneye, Reynolds Landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the Goldeneyes decided to fly up-stream to another location. I was lucky enough to see him take flight. This is one of the in-flight images from a burst of several. I was pleased that there is a reflection of the duck in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goldeneye, In Flight, Reynolds Landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Mallards were also busy in the river. This female bird spent much of the time preening her plumage and exercising her wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Female Mallard Exercising Wings.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I headed down-stream, where earlier I had spotted another group of ducks. Here I found this pair of Mallards resting on the rock. In the background was a Male Goldeneye cruising past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goldeneye, Cruising Past The Mallards.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At another nearby rock, an American Coot and Mallard, were perched. I had not seen this pairing on a small piece of real estate — the Mallard left the rock a few minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coot And Mallard, Sharing The Rock.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, that Male Goldeneye was busy cruising along the river behind the Coot’s rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goldeneye, Cruising Along, Reynolds Landing, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here is another image of the same Goldeneye, cruising back and forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Goldeneye, Cruising Along, Reynolds Landing, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Later, I moved to another location along the Platte River, closer to C-470. After arriving, I noticed this Belted Kingfisher. This has been the closest that got to these skittish birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Belted Kingfisher, South Platte Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Kingfisher was watching for prey above a pool in the water, where several different ducks were busy feeding. Here is a pair of American Wigeons busy paddling in search of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American Wigeon Pair, South Platte Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the bridge where C-470 crosses the river, I found these two ducks up-ended in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up-Ended, Under The Bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Two male Mallards were the usual suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pair Of Mallards, Under The Bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Returning back towards the parking lot, I was close to the Kingfisher’s pool. Here I found this “Gang of Four” Ring-Necked Ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ring-Necked Duck, Gang Of Four.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That concluded the images from an enjoyable birding outing to the Platte River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday, I had so much fun with the Mergansers in the Platte River, so I decided to post images of the other ducks separately. There were several Goldeneye ducks in the river, so I had the opportunity to make several images. I chose this image because of the expression and open mouth of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1363,307,1362,1811,1812,529,155,1815,1813],"class_list":{"0":"post-9352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-coot","8":"tag-ducks","9":"tag-flight","10":"tag-goldeneye","11":"tag-kingfisher","12":"tag-mallard","13":"tag-platte-river","14":"tag-ring-necked-duck","15":"tag-wigeon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2qQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9356,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions\/9356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}