{"id":2562,"date":"2009-10-20T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:24:02","slug":"northern-shoveler-anas-clypeata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/northern-shoveler-anas-clypeata.html","title":{"rendered":"Northern Shoveler, Anas clypeata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/northern_shoveler_photo.html\">Northern Shoveler<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Anas_clypeata\"><em>Anas clypeata<\/em><\/a>) Sunday morning at Santee Lakes. The coast near my home was totally socked in with pea soup fog, but once I got inland to Santee Lakes the skies cleared. Santee Lakes has some great duck photography. I am not a bird-centric photographer, but I&#8217;ll be photographing mostly seabirds this January on a month-long trip, so I&#8217;ll probably make a few outings to Santee Lakes and La Jolla to practice my bird photography before I leave.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Northern shoveler, adult nonbreeding plumage.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=23393\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Northern shoveler, adult nonbreeding plumage, Anas clypeata, Santee Lakes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/northern-shoveler-anas-clypeata-picture-23393-658553.jpg\" alt=\"Northern shoveler, adult nonbreeding plumage, Anas clypeata, Santee Lakes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Northern shoveler, adult nonbreeding plumage.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=23393\">23393<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Northern shoveler photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/northern_shoveler_photo.html\">Northern shoveler<\/a>, <a title=\"Anas clypeata photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Anas_clypeata\"><i>Anas clypeata<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=santee_lakes&amp;city=santee&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Santee Lakes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keywords: northern shoveler, duck, anas clypeata, santee lakes, san diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) Sunday morning at Santee Lakes. The coast near my home was totally socked in with pea soup fog, but once I got inland to Santee Lakes the skies cleared. Santee Lakes has some great duck photography. I am not a bird-centric photographer, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[212],"class_list":{"0":"post-2562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birds","8":"tag-birds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}