{"id":10405,"date":"2026-03-05T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10405"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:02:24","slug":"2-mallard-ducks-join-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/2-mallard-ducks-join-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"2 mallard ducks join the flock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These cute little quail eggs don&#8217;t always take dye the way that I&#8217;d like them to, so creating the two pysanky with mallard ducks was more of a challenge than I anticipated. I was looking forward to the contrast of the mallard&#8217;s bright orange beak\/feet and the rich green head and dark body. But then, what to have as a background colour? The deep wine colour of the body made any bright blue I tried go mottled, so I did what I always do at a time like this &#8212; reach for the purple! It took, and looks almost blue. So mallard ducks in water. Ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-1024x1003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-1024x1003.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-1536x1505.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs-1200x1176.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eighteggs.jpg 1622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These cute little quail eggs don&#8217;t always take dye the way that I&#8217;d like them to, so creating the two pysanky with mallard ducks was more of a challenge than I anticipated. I was looking forward to the contrast of the mallard&#8217;s bright orange beak\/feet and the rich green head and dark body. But then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/2-mallard-ducks-join-the-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2 mallard ducks join the flock&#8221;<\/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":[262,330],"tags":[332],"class_list":["post-10405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-pysanky","tag-pysanky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10410,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10405\/revisions\/10410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}