{"id":109770,"date":"2023-01-22T04:30:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=109770"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:36:28","slug":"1st-winter-common-goldeneye-drake-with-a-crawdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/01\/22\/1st-winter-common-goldeneye-drake-with-a-crawdad\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Winter Common Goldeneye Drake With A Crawdad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post this morning of a photo of a 1st winter Common Goldeneye drake with a crawdad in his bill at my neighborhood pond taken last year.<\/p>\n

\"1st1st winter Common Goldeneye drake with a crawdad \u2013 Nikon D500, tripod mounted, f7.1, 1\/2500, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a bright, sunny but chilly morning and I spent a lot of time focused on this young Common Goldeneye drake as he caught and consumed a few crawdads. I shared several images of him last year<\/span><\/a> but had omitted this photo.<\/p>\n

What I liked about this image was the great eye contact, the funky reflections of the duck and crawdad, and how the goldeneye was holding the crawdad in his bill.<\/p>\n

I haven’t photographed many Common Goldeneyes<\/span><\/a> this winter due in part to the dark, cloudy skies we have had. I thoroughly enjoy seeing these ducks at my neighborhood ponds and in the marshes that surround the Great Salt Lake while they are here during the winter.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Common Goldeneye photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a quick post this morning of a photo of a 1st winter Common Goldeneye drake with a crawdad in his bill at my neighborhood pond taken last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,962,709,26],"tags":[405,4238,4520,2545,2544,4753,4483,1129,2450,6348,5586,4062,13643,8018,3996,373],"class_list":["post-109770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-common-goldeneyes","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-1st-winter","tag-bucephala-clangula","tag-common-goldeneye","tag-crawdad","tag-crayfish","tag-diving-ducks","tag-drake","tag-duck","tag-first-winter","tag-goldeneye","tag-goldeneyes","tag-male","tag-ponf","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t