{"id":8539,"date":"2024-03-28T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:30:08","slug":"a-walk-along-the-canal-cayuga-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8539","title":{"rendered":"A walk along the canal – Cayuga ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago we went for a walk along the canal. I had a compact camera with me ‘just in case’ but wasn’t expecting to see anything but we came across these unusual ducks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A pair of ducks in the canal, possibly Cayuga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was just the two of them, I presume they were a breeding pair. I had to look them up and they appear to be Cayuga; a domestic breed that originated in the USA and may be a cross with the Mallard and a North American duck. These days, in this country, they are likely to be bred for meat or just as domestic pets. I do wonder if they are escapees or dumped unwanted pets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What doesn’t show well in these, heavily cropped, photos is the iridescent colours of the plumage – a beautiful dark green and blue shimmer. Here are a few more shots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A second view of a pair of ducks in the canal, possibly Cayuga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A pair of ducks in the canal, possibly Cayuga, with a couple of Mallard drakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second view of a pair of ducks in the canal, possibly Cayuga, with a couple of Mallard drakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This shows that it often is worthwhile to have a camera on these walks as you never know what you might see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we went for a walk along the canal. I had a compact camera with me ‘just in case’ but wasn’t expecting to see anything but we came across these unusual ducks: There was just the two of them, I presume they were a breeding pair. I had to look them up … Continue reading “A walk along the canal – Cayuga ducks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,92,24,3,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-canal","category-nature","category-photography","category-staffordshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}