{"id":36749,"date":"2025-05-10T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T01:42:43","slug":"blue-winged-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36749","title":{"rendered":"Blue-winged Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36750\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/250506-Blue-winged-Teal-SL3-6802-w8-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue-winged Teal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I take our dog for regular walks at our local lakes.\u00a0 I watch the waterfowl come and go with the seasons.\u00a0 I always have my &#8220;toy&#8221; camera gear with me, just in case (link below). For the last two weeks I watched the number of Blue-winged Teal slowly drop from 54 to 11. I wanted a photograph but they were always way out in the lake and too far away for a good image. And then it happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On May 6 there was a small cluster not too far from the road that is next to one side of the lake. I turned on my camera and checked the settings. Then I drove slowly down the road, window down, radio off, with my camera ready. As I got closer they took off. I pointed my camera out the window in time to catch this one in flight.<\/p>\n<p>On May 8 there were only two Blue-winged Teal on the lake, and today, May 10, they are all gone. But I got my photo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Data: Canon SL3 camera, Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens at 250mm. \u00a0 f\/11, 1\/1000 second, ISO 800.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=35867\">My Inexpensive, Featherweight &#8220;Toy&#8221; Camera Kit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=31517\">Pushing the Limits: $239 lens vs $2159 lens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take our dog for regular walks at our local lakes.\u00a0 I watch the waterfowl come and go with the seasons.\u00a0 I always have my &#8220;toy&#8221; camera gear with me, just in case (link below). For the last two weeks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36752,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions\/36752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}