{"id":7196,"date":"2021-02-13T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:26:40","slug":"mergansers-at-dulaney-valley-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/mergansers-at-dulaney-valley-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mergansers at Dulaney Valley Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are some pics from this morning &#8211; I stood along the shoulder of the road (behind the guardrail) watching the mergs for about an hour hoping to get some shots of a big group of them flying low across the water &#8230; didn&#8217;t happen, guess I&#8217;ll have to settle for a small group right above my head!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210213_D500MAS__DSC0014.jpg\" data-lbwps-width=\"1000\" data-lbwps-height=\"800\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/210213_D500MAS__DSC0014-600x480.jpg\" data-lbwps-exif=\"&lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_camera&quot;&gt;NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D500&lt;\/span&gt; 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I stood along the shoulder of the road (behind the guardrail) watching the mergs for about an hour hoping to get some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/mergansers-at-dulaney-valley-bridge\/\">Continue reading &#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mergansers at Dulaney Valley Bridge<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[126,24],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ducks","tag-dulaney-valley-bridge","tag-loch-raven-reservoir","ratio-3-2","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}