{"id":860,"date":"2012-11-26T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=860"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:59:34","slug":"waxwings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Waxwings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to a car park near you!<\/p>\n<p>It appears that up in northern Finland and Russia 2012 was a good breeding season for the Bohemian Waxwing. Unfortunately their normal winter diet of Rowan berries failed leading to the Waxwings arriving in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully over the past 30 years Rowans have been widely planted in many of our out of town shopping centres and industrial parks.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" 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=\"Waxwings\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3631_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwings \" width=\"600\" height=\"903\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nWaxings at Baguley Wythenshawe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" 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=\"Waxwing in Rowan tree\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3644_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwing in Rowan tree\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nUnmistakable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3722.jpg\"><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=\"Waxwing with Rowan berry\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3722_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwing with Rowan berry\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWaxwing with Rowan berry<\/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\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3707.jpg\"><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=\"Waxwing with Rowan berries\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3707_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwing with Rowan berries\" width=\"292\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3713.jpg\"><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=\"Waxwing\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3713_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwing\" width=\"292\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/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=\"600\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3666.jpg\"><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=\"Waxwing red tips\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3666_thumb.jpg\" alt=\" Waxwing complete with distinctive red tips to secondaries\" width=\"600\" height=\"903\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe common name refers to the bright red sealing wax like tips of the secondary feathers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bohemian is thought to be a reference to the Romany Gypsy and a comparison to the bird&#8217;s wanderings across Europe.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3637.jpg\"><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=\"Who gives you extra?\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_3637_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Who gives you extra?\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Every little helps \u2013 Tesco Baguley &#8211; home to 56 Waxwings for 3 days in mid November 2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming to a car park near you! It appears that up in northern Finland and Russia 2012 was a good breeding season for the Bohemian Waxwing. Unfortunately their normal winter diet of Rowan berries failed leading to the Waxwings arriving in the UK. Thankfully over <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link btn btn-transparent\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=860\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[253,255,252,254],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-manchester","tag-rowan","tag-waxwings","tag-wythenshawe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}