{"id":2156,"date":"2015-02-25T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2015-02-25T22:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T22:08:53","slug":"something-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"Something brewing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Welcome<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Ribble Estuary NNR just under 10 miles south of Blackpool Tower and home to over quarter of a million waders and wildfowl during the winter. On Saturday 21st Feb the highest tide of the year came rolling in.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Oh,<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"There<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Typical, you really couldn\u2019t make it up. A line of heavy showers appears on the horizon heading in\u00a0 our direction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Wigeon<\/a><\/td>\n\"Black-tailed<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
As the tide begins to cover the marsh thousands of Wigeon descend from the RSPB reserve at Marshside a short flight across the road.<\/td>\nFollowed closely by Black-tailed Godwits and Teal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Knots<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meanwhile out on the marsh the Knots are on the move, the Great White Egret has flown and the weather is beginning to look ominous.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"A<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An incredible spectacle. Thousands of Knots against a rapidly darkening sky with a male Merlin on the lookout for an easy meal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"20<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 minutes later the weather began to clear<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Oystercatchers<\/a><\/td>\n\"He's<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oystercatchers returning to the marsh.<\/td>\nLapwings circling looking for somewhere safe to land.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ribble Estuary NNR just under 10 miles south of Blackpool Tower and home to over quarter of a million waders and wildfowl during the winter. On Saturday 21st Feb the highest tide of the year came rolling in. Typical, you really couldn\u2019t make it Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,15,101],"tags":[293,379,295,380,489],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-landscapes","category-seashore","tag-black-tailed-godwit","tag-knot","tag-lapwing","tag-oystercatcher","tag-wigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}