{"id":316,"date":"2011-11-28T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=316"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:24:57","slug":"bearded-tits-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Bearded Tits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unmistakeable, gorgeous little birds from a late October trip up to Leighton Moss. In total there must have been around 20 adults and juveniles \u201cfeeding\u201d on the grit trays watched by a similar number of bird watchers.<\/p>\n<p>Also a couple of Marsh Harriers, several Buzzards, 22 Snipe, 2 Sparrowhawks, 2000 Oystercatchers, 250,000 Starlings and 60+ Little Egrets coming into roost. Unfortunately we missed the Otters. Had a quick look for the Silverdale Hawfinches but no luck however plenty of Nuthatches, Treecreepers, Bullfinch, Redwing and Fieldfare around.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the next visit up north will be to Roudsea Wood and Mosses National Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Bearded Tits on grit tray \" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_9114_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bearded Tits on grit tray \" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Bearded Tits - 2 males and 1 female\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_9112_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bearded Tits - 2 males and 1 female\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Mixed group of Bearded Tits on Grit Tray\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_9111_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Mixed group of Bearded Tits on Grit Tray\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Bearded Tits coming out of the reeds to &quot;feed&quot; on the grit trays\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_9120_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bearded Tits coming out of the reeds to &quot;feed&quot; on the grit trays\" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"More Bearded Tits coming out of the reeds to &quot;feed&quot; on the grit trays\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_9113_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"More Bearded Tits coming out of the reeds to &quot;feed&quot; on the grit trays\" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmistakeable, gorgeous little birds from a late October trip up to Leighton Moss. In total there must have been around 20 adults and juveniles \u201cfeeding\u201d on the grit trays watched by a similar number of bird watchers. Also a couple of Marsh Harriers, several Buzzards, <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=316\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[109,60],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-bearded-tits","tag-leighton-moss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}