{"id":7599,"date":"2018-07-12T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T23:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2018-07-12T19:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T23:10:54","slug":"adirondack-chronicles-2018-5-mother-ducks-know-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2018\/07\/adirondack-chronicles-2018-5-mother-ducks-know-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Chronicles 2018.5: Mother Ducks Know Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Miles of back roads up here are dirt roads, some with gravel surfaces like the road above.\u00a0 I was many miles into the forest on this road to Stillwater when I saw this mother duck herding her three chicks down a slope on the road.\u00a0 I knew that up ahead were some heavy equipment trucks working on culverts and grooming the gravel surface — July means road work in the short summer season here. So the ducks probably were disturbed from their habitat and in search of a new pond.\u00a0 Fortunately, an outlet at the bottom of the slope led to some nice water.\u00a0 I watched as the mom led her babies through the underbrush, and she plunged in to show them the way, and the chicks followed fast behind:<\/p>\n

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They hurried along to a place of safety among the tall grasses in the marsh, and mother duck kept looking around the whole time to be sure her kids were safe.\u00a0 That’s what moms do!<\/p>\n

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\"\"A frog watched from the mud, seemingly unimpressed but knowing enough to stay quiet:<\/p>\n

\"\"Overhead, the kind of predator the mother ducks fear was sitting on a wire looking in a different direction:<\/p>\n

\"\"Meanwhile, this double-winged dragonfly was showing off — but staying high above the frog so as not to become dinner!<\/p>\n

\"\"Speaking of dinner, the wild turkey population up here is abundant…. I counted eight baby turkeys with these two parent birds racing up the hillside to get away from the photographer…. rest assured Thanksgiving will be well stocked!\u00a0 And that portrait of a turkey… reminds me of some members of Congress….<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"<\/a>On the way home, I saw a mama bear and cub saunter across the road ahead — too fast for the camera — and on a different lake another mother duck was taking her brood across the broad water:<\/p>\n

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\"\"Having dinner on the deck, I was serenaded by the lovely call of a loon….. a perfect ending for a “ducky” day! And all reminders of the beautiful sights, sounds and rhythms of nature — and the importance of environmental stewardship to be sure these lovely critters and beautiful places remain safe for all kinds of wildlife (and humans, too!).<\/p>\n

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Mother ducks make sure their chicks stay together and pass safely from land to water and across the lakes. Mothers know best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1628],"class_list":["post-7599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondack-chronicles","tag-adirondack-chronicles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}