{"id":1459,"date":"2014-04-14T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2014-06-30T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:13:44","slug":"mud-glorious-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"Mud glorious mud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"Peacock<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peacock butterfly nectaring on Willow catkins. <\/p>\n

In contrast to last month\u2019s trip up north to Silverdale and Arnside on this occasion it was gloriously sunny. In fact, after 6 hrs in the sunshine I even managed to get slightly sunburnt. Great to see plenty of Peacocks, Small Tortoiseshells and some freshly emerged male Brimstones on the wing.  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Avocets\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"Black<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newly arrived Avocets.  <\/p>\n

The bright sunshine even allowed an almost respectable digiscoped effort.<\/td>\n

Black tailed Godwits and a lone Avocet. <\/p>\n

Another digiscoped effort. As per usual the Godwits were having a nap. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Avocets<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Avocets in a bit of a flap <\/p>\n

In between feeding plenty of posturing, flapping of wings and courtship behaviour. I wonder where these ones over winter? Possibly the south coast or Holland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sea washed turf<\/a> on the edge of Morecambe Bay <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Mud<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mud glorious mud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peacock butterfly nectaring on Willow catkins. In contrast to last month\u2019s trip up north to Silverdale and Arnside on this occasion it was gloriously sunny. In fact, after 6 hrs in the sunshine I even managed to get slightly sunburnt. Great to see plenty of Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183,4,15,101],"tags":[417,408,409,411,407,410],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","category-insects","category-landscapes","category-seashore","tag-april","tag-avocets","tag-black-tailed-godwits","tag-mud-glorious-mud","tag-peacock-butterfly","tag-sea-washed-turf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}