{"id":31536,"date":"2013-01-14T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T09:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=31536"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:37:23","slug":"hooded-merganser-lophdytes-cucullatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/hooded-merganser-lophdytes-cucullatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooded Merganser – Lophdytes cucullatus"},"content":{"rendered":"

What I love about winter in New England is that the pond start to freeze up and it concentrates the ducks and other birds into smaller areas that have open water. At a local pond in Plymouth Massachusetts, it becomes much easier to photograph and observe hooded mergansers. I was able to observe and photograph a male hooded merganser eating a large sunfish. The photograph in this article shows the size of the fish that the merganser was trying to eat along with a male Mallard observing. If you go to my blog you can see additional photographs the sequence of the hooded merganser eating this fish.<\/p>\n

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What I love about winter in New England is that the pond start to freeze up and it concentrates the ducks and other birds into smaller areas that have open water. At a local pond in Plymouth Massachusetts, it becomes much easier to photograph and observe hooded mergansers. I was able to observe and photograph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":2192701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hooded-feeding-_D8C3724.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7830,1703,7816,1334,7831,2897,2898,2899,2900],"class_list":["post-31536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-birds","tag-duck","tag-hooded-merganser","tag-horizontal","tag-jenney-pond","tag-male","tag-mallard-anas-platyrhychos","tag-plymouth-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}