{"id":48239,"date":"2017-08-24T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=48239"},"modified":"2024-09-02T04:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T09:20:03","slug":"landing-drake-mallard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/08\/24\/landing-drake-mallard\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing Drake Mallard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MallardMallard drake in landing pose – Nikon D500, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I came across this photo a few days ago that I had taken in December of 2016 at a local pond in Salt Lake County and I processed the file to share here on my blog because I like the landing pose of the duck.<\/p>\n

I don’t often have the opportunity of taking photos of ducks that are flying straight at me while coming in for a landing which is exactly what this drake mallard did. It was winter and there was only a small area of open water close to where I sat in a “mobile blind” and that was where this drake landed.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure that photographing at that pond is going to be very productive at all this winter due to a change in policy at that city park but maybe the ducks, gulls & geese will still show up.<\/p>\n

I hope they do because I have had so much fun photographing them over the years that I have lived here in Utah and because the pond is close enough that I can be there in just a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I don’t often have the opportunity of taking photos of ducks that are flying straight at me while coming in for a landing which is exactly what this drake mallard did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[27,965,709,26],"tags":[4004,4237,2069,4483,1129,126,4052,4122,4123,4062,1604,7951,4124,4018,8018,2063,373],"class_list":["post-48239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-mallards","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-anas-platyrhynchos","tag-blue-sky","tag-drake","tag-duck","tag-ducks-2","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-landing","tag-male","tag-mallard","tag-mallards","tag-mobile-blind","tag-sky","tag-urban","tag-waterfowl","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