{"id":5299,"date":"2018-06-02T14:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:53:53","slug":"the-ugly-ducklings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5299","title":{"rendered":"The Ugly Ducklings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Couldn’t resist posting these.<\/p>\n

A few ugly ducklings hitching a ride on their mother’s back. At 6am they’re relatively approachable which is probably just as well considering I only had the phone on me to take a few snaps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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I’m actually quite impressed with the Samsung Galaxy S8’s camera. In common with most smartphone cameras it tends to over-sharpen photographs and sometimes the colours can be a little too vibrant however on the whole it does well. Great to see it accurately picked up on the wonderful early morning sunshine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Later in the afternoon the Swan’s are more wary. Perhaps understandably so after the usual\u00a0 disturbance from Jet-ski’s, boats, labrador’s and even swimmers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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It might look friendly however the male Swan (Cob) in the foreground is very much on guard duty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Couldn’t resist posting these. A few ugly ducklings hitching a ride on their mother’s back. At 6am they’re relatively approachable which is probably just as well considering I only had the phone on me to take a few snaps. I’m actually quite impressed with the Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[803,318,804,319],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-cygnets","tag-mute-swan","tag-sale-water-park","tag-swan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}