{"id":4993,"date":"2012-12-20T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?page_id=4993"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:46:08","slug":"bird-images-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/bird-images-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRD IMAGES 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; \">\n\t<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">My year list for 2011 was slightly better than last year, I managed to see 267 species in Britain and I had&nbsp; 4 lifers plus an armchair tick (Siberian Stonechat) so I&rsquo;m creeping along ever closer to the big 500!<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 19px; \">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; \">\n\t<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">My highlights of the year were trips to Speyside, Scotland in April; Shetland in September &amp; Scilly in October; White-winged Scoter twitch to Aberdeen in June; the White-throated Robin at Hartlepool in June; Northern Waterthrush &amp; Scarlet Tanager on Scilly in October and finding a Dusky Warbler on Scilly. A Western Bonelli&rsquo;s Warbler in Derbyshire was a surprise county tick.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 19px; \">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; \">\n\t<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">An Oriental Turtle Dove in February; White-tailed Eagle in the highlands in April; a Black Stork in Northants in May; a superb Sabine&rsquo;s Gull at Belvide, Staffs, plenty of waders including Pectoral Sandpiper; Sharp-tailed Sandpiper&rsquo; Western Sandpiper; Marsh Sandpiper and several Grey Phalarope; the finding of a Pallid Harrier in September having just come off Shetland; Sandhill Crane at St.Combs on our way to Shetland;&nbsp; American Black Tern in Lincs in Oct; Red-flanked Bluetail in Norfolk Oct and plenty of migrants and rarities on Shetland &amp; Scilly. A superb year, met some great birders throughout the year and enjoyed good company from the usual crew.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; \">\n\t<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">THE FOLLOWING ARE MY FAVOURITE IMAGES FROM 2011.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Futura; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">e<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\n\t<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/index.php\/bird-galleries\/\"><span style=\"color: rgb(173, 216, 230);\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Back to Galleries<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Futura; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); \">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My year list for 2011 was slightly better than last year, I managed to see 267 species in Britain and I had&nbsp; 4 lifers plus an armchair tick (Siberian Stonechat) so I&rsquo;m creeping along ever closer to the big 500! &nbsp; My highlights of the year were trips to Speyside, Scotland in April; Shetland in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}