{"id":2031,"date":"2015-01-03T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-01-15T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T21:17:53","slug":"in-the-bleak-midwinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"In the bleak midwinter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Marsh<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marsh Tit close to the lower hide at Leighton Moss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Marsh<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amazing to see how successful the Marsh Tits continue to be around the Silverdale and Arnside area. Probably helps that they have a non-stop supply of bird seed left behind by visitors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Marsh<\/a><\/td>\n\"Seed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leaving the seed on the armrest of a bench seems to work quite well until one of the Pheasants from the\u00a0 neighbouring shoots devours the lot.<\/td>\nHard to begrudge the Pheasant its seasonal feast . Factory farming Pheasants<\/a> to be shot is disgusting. Its not big, its not clever and it definitely isn\u2019t sport.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Common<\/a><\/td>\n\"Common<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Common Snipe taking a walk out into the marsh directly in front of the lower hide.<\/td>\nUnfortunately in many areas its still considered to be a gamebird.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"The<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Unlike the Pheasant the superb cryptic plumage helps the Snipe to remain largely unseen .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Mute<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Summer seems a long time ago. Last year\u2019s cygnets enjoying one of the few areas of\u00a0 ice-free, open water.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Summer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morecambe Bay \u2013 Summer (usually a couple of days towards the end of June)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Winter<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morecambe Bay \u2013 Winter (the other 363 days of the year)Great to see new artwork being installed within the hides down on the saltmarsh. Certainly an improvement on the traditional bird identification displays.<\/p>\n

Hopefully our next visit will include highlights from the new tower hide that\u2019s being constructed close to the visitor centre. It should provide a spectacular panoramic view over the reedbeds.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marsh Tit close to the lower hide at Leighton Moss. Amazing to see how successful the Marsh Tits continue to be around the Silverdale and Arnside area. Probably helps that they have a non-stop supply of bird seed left behind by visitors. Leaving the seed Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[272,318,482,274],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-marsh-tit","tag-mute-swan","tag-pheasant","tag-snipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}