{"id":336,"date":"2012-01-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=336"},"modified":"2020-04-02T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:05:41","slug":"a-winters-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"A Winter’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again took the opportunity of another break in the weather and headed up to WWT Martin Mere. I\u2019d almost forgotten how busy it gets on a Sunday afternoon. Although its encouraging to see the sheer number of people with an interest in the environment trying to get a good, close up view of anything is far from easy.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly the highlights were a Willow Tit from the Janet Kear hide and approximately 8\u00a0 Tundra Bean Geese from the Ron Barker hide.\u00a0 Unfortunately the geese were too far out to photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Willow
\nWillow Tit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Willow
\nWillow Tit<\/td>\n		\"Tree
\nTree Sparrow (one of the Mere\u2019s specialities)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Ruff\"
\nRuff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Whooper
\nWhooper Swan<\/td>\n		\"Whooper
\nWhooper Swans in flight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\n

\"Drake
\nA smart looking Drake Pintail.<\/p>\n

On the way back we made a quick detour off the M6 to Lowton, parked up in the Traveller\u2019s Rest and walked down to Highfield Moss. Plenty of Golden Plover, a few Lapwings and Fieldfare in the fields. On the moss itself at least 7 Snipe at dusk followed shortly by a great display from 2 Short eared Owls.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Highfield
\nHighfield Moss at dusk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"Short
\nA distant Short eared Owl<\/td>\n		\"Quartering
\nQuartering the moss in near darkness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again took the opportunity of another break in the weather and headed up to WWT Martin Mere. I\u2019d almost forgotten how busy it gets on a Sunday afternoon. Although its encouraging to see the sheer number of people with an interest in the environment trying Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[56,112,115,114,113],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-highfield-moss","tag-martin-mere","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-tree-sparrow","tag-willow-tit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","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=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}