{"id":860,"date":"2013-02-14T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=860"},"modified":"2025-05-17T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:34:10","slug":"happy-valentines-paddle-in-the-oakville-ontario-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/happy-valentines-paddle-in-the-oakville-ontario-marina\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Paddle in the Oakville Ontario Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like love to me! See he&#8217;s smiling!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/happy-valentines-paddle-in-the-oakville-ontario-marina\/longtailedduckpairoakvilleonmarinafebruary-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-862\" title=\"LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary1-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary1-400x316.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/LongTailedDuckPairOakvilleONMarinaFebruary1-378x300.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These two Long-tailed loves were feeding inside the breakwater at the Bronte Outer Harbour marina in Oakville, Ontario. Many other Long-taileds were diving in Lake Ontario beyond the breakwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Long-tailed ducks in winter plumage. <\/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":[25,972,966],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-birds","tag-bronte-outer-harbour","tag-long-tailed-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}