{"id":656,"date":"2013-01-08T20:38:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=656"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T22:24:44","slug":"huge-floating-flock-ducks-oakville-lake-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/huge-floating-flock-ducks-oakville-lake-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind are the Hundreds of Ducks Floating in a Huge Raft on Lake Ontario near Oakville?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While driving along the Lakeshore Boulevard in Oakville Ontario today, I had to stop to admire a huge raft of ducks floating on Lake Ontario. I stopped at the easternmost parking lot of Coronation Park and got out to take a few quick photos. I was pretty sure what kind of ducks were sleeping peacefully off shore, but I waited till I was home to confirm it.<\/p>\n

There were far too many birds to capture in a single photo. I did take a series of photos so I may have fun trying to count them at a later time. Here’s a photo of part of the raft.<\/p>\n

\"Hundreds<\/a><\/p>\n

Near one end, a few ducks were awake and diving repeatedly for food. The oversized bills that gleamed a dull blue were another clue. The white and grey of the males stood out from the brown of the females. I knew they must be Scaup. The question was: Greater or Lesser.<\/p>\n

My decision, based on reviewing sources later at home, is that they were Greater Scaup. I hope to share some reasons and photos in another post soon.<\/p>\n

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\nHave you seen any big rafts of floating ducks? What kind were they? Please share your experiences with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of sleeping ducks float peacefully in Lake Ontario. Some call them Bluebills, but they have another name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[53,52],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-ducks","tag-greater-scaup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}