{"id":3786,"date":"2017-02-11T20:20:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2017-02-12T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T10:21:17","slug":"leighton-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"Leighton Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_1017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32808355185\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2543\/32808355185_45c9348247_c.jpg\" alt=\"Little Egret at Leighton Moss\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Little Egret on the hunt close to the Grisedale hide.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe but I&#8217;m now the wrong side of 50! To celebrate\u00a0we continued with a time-honoured, tradition of taking a couple of days off work with one of them being spent at the RSPB&#8217;s Leighton Moss Nature Reserve. Birdwise to be brutally honest it was quiet, however without the\u00a0hordes of people typically\u00a0found at weekends the\u00a0atmosphere to be found whilst\u00a0walking through\u00a0the reedbeds was far easier to appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping for a few photos of the Marsh Harriers, a Bearded Tit, perhaps a Cetti&#8217;s, a Water Rail, a Great White Egret\u00a0or even one of several Otters, but no &#8211; despite them all being present I was either in the wrong place at the wrong time or more likely just too chilled out.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0986\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32655061132\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2081\/32655061132_db7aabdd35_c.jpg\" alt=\"Nuthatch close to the Lower Hide.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Plenty of Nuthatches around with their distinctive call being heard throughout the woodlands around the edge of the reserve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0777\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/31965424234\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/4\/3687\/31965424234_acfd9de62b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Robin\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0854\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32427665150\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/607\/32427665150_d80f943ef8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Robin on a woodpile\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Auditioning for next year&#8217;s Christmas Card.<\/td>\n<td>A resident or an over-wintering visitor?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0803\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32427658040\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/265\/32427658040_c16f300501_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coal Tit\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0871\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/31965443584\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/483\/31965443584_b9a9d4d74a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Coal Tit enjoying a sunflower heart.\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A Coal Tit enjoying some sunflower hearts.<\/td>\n<td>Slightly more wary than the\u00a0more common Tits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0940\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32767602606\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2243\/32767602606_490b694bc9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh Tit eating a sunflower heart\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The increasingly rare\u00a0Marsh Tit. Easily tempted down from the trees by an offering of sunflower hearts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"DSC_0825\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/31994179833\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2116\/31994179833_cdd01199d9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Drake Pintail\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pintail. Seems a little bit early for nest building however this fine looking drake appeared to be showing off his building skills to a distinctly unimpressed female.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"P1080762\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/31994186493\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/617\/31994186493_e1e8dfd1c8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Scarlet Elfcups\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0993\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ianworsley\/32685222931\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/451\/32685222931_5bbe7a5fb3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Scarlet Elfcups at Leighton Moss\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Scarlet Elfcups. Widespread on dead Elder branches in the damper areas of the adjacent woodland.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Egret on the hunt close to the Grisedale hide. Hard to believe but I&#8217;m now the wrong side of 50! 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