{"id":11692,"date":"2015-06-07T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=11692"},"modified":"2015-06-07T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:14:23","slug":"lakenheath-fen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/lakenheath-fen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakenheath Fen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>I spent most of today, Sunday 7th June, at Lakenheath Fen listening to a strange croaking sound emanating from one of the reed beds<\/strong><\/span>. It was the song of a male <strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Little Bittern<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>and the first time I had ever heard it. The bird was continuously singing for at least an hour and a half and then off and on and despite the soft sound, it was still far-carrying. After some time, I was lucky enough to obtain two brief flight views. Also around the fen were numerous Hobby hunting dragonflies, at least 10 Marsh Harrier, several <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Bearded Tit<\/span>, a <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Kingfisher<\/span>, at least 6 singing Cetti&#8217;s Warbler, several Cuckoo, including a female. Several Hairy Dragonfly were on the wing and a few brimstone butterflies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A visit to nearby Weeting Heath rounded-off the day and an adult <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Stone Curlew <\/span>with 2 young eventually made an appearance from the west hide. Also around the reserve, a <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Woodlark<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Firecrest<\/span> and a <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Spotted\u00a0Flycatcher<\/span> were all year ticks. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">My year list moves on to 204<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cuckoo_J4X3634.jpg\" alt=\"Cuckoo_J4X3634\" width=\"711\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cuckoo_J4X3634.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cuckoo_J4X3634-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cuckoo_J4X3634-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cuckoo_J4X3634-433x700.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cuckoo<\/strong> &#8211; male &#8211; Lakenheath Fen, Suffolk &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-11694 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3647.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby_J4X3647\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3647.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3647-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3647-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3647-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3657.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby_J4X3657\" width=\"711\" height=\"1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3657.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3657-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3657-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3657-433x700.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3689.jpg\" alt=\"Hobby_J4X3689\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3689.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3689-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3689-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hobby_J4X3689-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hobby<\/strong> &#8211; above three images &#8211; Lakenheath Fen, Suffolk &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3713.jpg\" alt=\"Spot Fly_J4X3713\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3713.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3713-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3713-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3713-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3722.jpg\" alt=\"Spot Fly_J4X3722\" width=\"1150\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3722.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3722-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3722-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Spot-Fly_J4X3722-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Spotted Flycatcher<\/strong> &#8211; Weeting Heath, Norfolk &#8211; <em>Tony Davison<\/em>\u00a9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of today, Sunday 7th June, at Lakenheath Fen listening to a strange croaking sound emanating from one of the reed beds. It was the song of a male Little Bittern\u00a0and the first time I had ever heard it. The bird was continuously singing for at least an hour and a half and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[607,18,606,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-607","category-birds","category-birdsof2015","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}