{"id":955,"date":"2024-12-14T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=955"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:16:58","slug":"migrating-ducks-and-geese-stop-off-at-taylor-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Ducks and Geese Stop off at Taylor Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The ice is starting to form on Taylor Pond and the open water is slowly disappearing. A variety of ducks stop off on their migration south. Mallards, Common Loons, Wood Ducks, Hooded and Common Mergansers all breed on the pond in the summer. In the fall, Ring-neck Ducks, Common Goldeneye, Buffleheads and Ruddy Ducks will appear. Flocks of Canada Geese find shelter on the pond in the evenings after feeding in distant fields. Their honking calls can be heard at night as they talk to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-2048x1149.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_8099-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A flock of about 100 Canada Geese landed on the ice this morning.  Photo by Wylie Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice is starting to form on Taylor Pond and the open water is slowly disappearing. A variety of ducks stop off on their migration south. Mallards, Common Loons, Wood Ducks, Hooded and Common Mergansers all breed on the pond &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/?p=955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taylorpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}