{"id":5499,"date":"2016-04-19T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2016-04-19T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:03:17","slug":"merganser-madness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"MERGANSER MADNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Had \u00a0fun recently shooting some male common mergansers in an early evening feeding frenzy. Normally a difficult bird to get close too, their passion for fishing provided some opportunities for \u00a0some relatively close encounters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5502\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-2.jpg\" alt=\"Merganser Fish 2\" width=\"2493\" height=\"1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-2.jpg 2493w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-2-1024x727.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\" \/><\/a><strong>COMMON MERGANSER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Action can often get hot and heavy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5501\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Merganser Fish 1-2\" width=\"2493\" height=\"1770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1-2.jpg 2493w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1-2-1024x727.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2493px) 100vw, 2493px\" \/><\/a><strong>COMMON MERGANSER SURFACES WITH CATCH!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5500\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish.jpg\" alt=\"Merganser Fish\" width=\"1146\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Merganser-Fish-1024x844.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><\/a><strong>EYES ON THE PRIZE!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Look at those razor-sharp reverse serrations in the bill!!! Not designed for &#8220;catch and release&#8221;!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had \u00a0fun recently shooting some male common mergansers in an early evening feeding frenzy. Normally a difficult bird to get close too, their passion for fishing provided some opportunities for \u00a0some relatively close encounters.\u00a0 COMMON MERGANSER Action can often get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}