{"id":517,"date":"2009-08-29T20:45:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:53:33","slug":"ex-hurricane-danny-weather-for-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/ex-hurricane-danny-weather-for-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-hurricane Danny: Weather for ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"518\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009-08-28-ducks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2009-08-28-ducks.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,411\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2009-08-28-ducks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#8217;s down the road?&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2009-08-28-ducks.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-518\" title=\"2009-08-28-ducks\" src=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2009-08-28-ducks.jpg\" alt=\"What's down the road?\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2009-08-28-ducks.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/2009-08-28-ducks-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;OK, boys, we&#39;re outta here. Let&#39;s check things out down the road.&quot;  E. Sepulchre photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These intrepid ducks were not at all shy as my husband herded them out of the garden and back down the road.  I bet they&#8217;re happy now: it&#8217;s pouring rain.  Danny was briefly a hurricane but is down to a post-tropical storm that will pass south of Nova Scotia on a similar path to Hurricane Bill.  After a beautifully sunny, but cool, week, the gardens will love the rain.  But weekend campers are out of luck this time.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to have been a bumper year for ducks.\u00a0 Near our place, we&#8217;re blessed with lots of natural shoreline where they can build nests.\u00a0 Elsewhere, and where people have the money, they build walls of boulders at the high tide line to shore up their lawns and act as a buffer against erosion.\u00a0 But those neat and tidy rock walls are bad news for nesting shorebirds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These intrepid ducks were not at all shy as my husband herded them out of the garden and back down the road. I bet they&#8217;re happy now: it&#8217;s pouring rain. Danny was briefly a hurricane but is down to a post-tropical storm that will pass south of Nova Scotia on a similar path to Hurricane &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/ex-hurricane-danny-weather-for-ducks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ex-hurricane Danny: Weather for ducks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,97,68,3],"tags":[93,12,209,205,195,206,210,207,208,211,196],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-gardening-in-nova-scotia","category-natural-shoreline","category-weather","tag-development","tag-ducks","tag-erosion","tag-hurricane","tag-hurricane-bill","tag-hurricane-danny","tag-nesting","tag-rain","tag-rock-walls","tag-shorebirds","tag-storm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-hurricane Danny: Weather for ducks - Nova Scotia Photo Album Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/ex-hurricane-danny-weather-for-ducks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-hurricane Danny: Weather for ducks - Nova Scotia Photo Album Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"These intrepid ducks were not at all shy as my husband herded them out of the garden and back down the road. 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