{"id":150482,"date":"2024-01-17T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=150482"},"modified":"2024-01-17T08:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:18:57","slug":"a-hooded-merganser-a-mallard-and-catching-up-on-loose-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/a-hooded-merganser-a-mallard-and-catching-up-on-loose-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hooded Merganser, A Mallard And Catching Up On Loose Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a morning of snafus and hair-pulling. A neat trick for me since I have very little hair.<\/p>\n<p>I had a long post of 14 images planned for today but at 4:30 this morning, within minutes after I started to work on it, Comcast went down so I lost internet access. For inexplicable reasons my hotspot wouldn&#8217;t work either so I was resigned to not posting today. By the time I got internet back almost 90 minutes later it was too late for my long and involved planned post so today I&#8217;m going to catch readers up on a few loose ends and probably bitch about Comcast (Xfinity).<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I&#8217;m punting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll include a single bird photo because I think it may be enlightening to some of my readers who may not be aware of how small Hooded Mergansers are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"150485\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/a-hooded-merganser-a-mallard-and-catching-up-on-loose-ends\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1705357261&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hooded merganser 0049 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-150485 size-full\" title=\"hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/hooded-merganser-0049-ron-dudley-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago this drake Mallard photobombed a male Hooded Merganser I was attempting to photograph. I think the photo provides an effective visual perspective regarding just how small Hooded Mergansers actually are. Hoodies aren&#8217;t much more than half as big as Mallards (1.4 lbs vs 2.4 lbs. by weight). Some folks who don&#8217;t have personal experience with Hoodies might be surprised by that. Hooded Mergansers are petite little ducks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now to some loose ends.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m now able to add my copyright logo to my photos again. Originally, I blamed that snafu on Photoshop but it was just me doing something stupid. Embarrassed.<\/li>\n<li>For the last few days many subscribers to my blog have been unable to get the email link they get to each day&#8217;s blog post to work properly. I now know that the problem is caused by an issue with Jetpack, one of the many plugins that WordPress uses. Lots of folks have been complaining about it on Jetpack&#8217;s troubleshooting page but Jetpack hasn&#8217;t been responding to their complaints. Hopefully, Jetpack will get their act together soon. In the meantime, subscribers can click on either the title or &#8220;Comment&#8221; in their post email to get to my blog. Usually it&#8217;s when they click on &#8220;Read more of this post&#8221; that it doesn&#8217;t work but it can be unpredictable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK, my frustrations with Comcast have now settled back down to more manageable levels. I just hope I can get this post published before I lose internet again. It started to snow heavily as soon as I got up so maybe the storm has something to do with Comcast&#8217;s issues. But often Comcast doesn&#8217;t need any excuse at all to screw up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to look on the bright side. Our roads are now covered with snow &#8211; at least I don&#8217;t have to drive to work in this slippery, dangerous mess.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a morning of snafus and hair-pulling. 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