{"id":415,"date":"2010-02-01T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T08:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2011-06-21T06:07:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T06:07:05","slug":"big-garden-birdwatch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/big-garden-birdwatch-2","title":{"rendered":"Big Garden Birdwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a leisurely hour of birdwatching yesterday morning.\u00a0 With all of the feeders stocked with top class bird food from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedthebirds.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Poltross<\/a>,   and a bacon and egg butty and a mug of coffee in hand,   we settled down into our respective positions on either side of the kitchen.\u00a0 With commentary on the dismantling of Andy Murray in the background, binoculars were trained on the feeders, the ground, the shrubbery and the Ash tree.\u00a0 After a slow start, things began to gather pace and we finished with 76 birds of 20 species;<\/p>\n<p>Collared Dove 4<\/p>\n<p>Wood Pigeon 2<\/p>\n<p>Jackdaw 1<\/p>\n<p>Carrion Crow 1<\/p>\n<p>House Sparrow 1<\/p>\n<p>Starling 7<\/p>\n<p>Blue Tit 2<\/p>\n<p>Great Tit 3<\/p>\n<p>Coal Tit 7<\/p>\n<p>Willow Tit 2<\/p>\n<p>Long-tailed Tit 3<\/p>\n<p>Chaffinch 14<\/p>\n<p>Greenfinch 5<\/p>\n<p>Goldfinch 2<\/p>\n<p>Bullfinch 4<\/p>\n<p>Goldcrest 1<\/p>\n<p>Robin 6<\/p>\n<p>Dunnock 2<\/p>\n<p>Blackbird 5<\/p>\n<p>Redwing 4<\/p>\n<p>There were a few absentees as well, all seen regularly in the days leading up to the Big Garden Birdwatch;<\/p>\n<p>Jay<\/p>\n<p>Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/p>\n<p>Sparrowhawk<\/p>\n<p>Siskin<\/p>\n<p>Maybe 25 species in 1hr is a target to aim for in our garden next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a leisurely hour of birdwatching yesterday morning.\u00a0 With all of the feeders stocked with top class bird food from Poltross, and a bacon and egg butty and a mug of coffee in hand, we settled down into our respective positions on either side of the kitchen.\u00a0 With commentary on the dismantling of Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,104],"tags":[823,133,46,27,102,101,157,159,135,25,45,75,160,24,121,22,116,89,131,161,28,158],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birdwatching","category-surveys","tag-birdwatching","tag-blackbird","tag-blue-tit","tag-bullfinch","tag-chaffinch","tag-coal-tit","tag-collared-dove","tag-dunnock","tag-goldcrest","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-great-tit","tag-greenfinch","tag-house-sparrow","tag-jay","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-redwing","tag-robin","tag-siskin","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-starling","tag-willow-tit","tag-woodpigeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}