{"id":14702,"date":"2016-02-01T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2016-02-01T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T20:44:28","slug":"no-rain-on-our-podiceps-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/no-rain-on-our-podiceps-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"No Rain on our Podiceps Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 30th January 2016 and Glyn, Richard and I made a visit to Cleethorpes Country Park in Lincolnshire,<\/strong><\/span> to see 2 species of grebe that are scarce winter visitors. To see them both on one small lake was exceptional, especially as they were very confiding individuals. A Red-necked Grebe<\/span> and two Slavonian Grebe<\/span>\u00a0performed very well for our cameras during the morning, as you will see from the following photographs. It was a superb experience to have these birds at such close quarters, totally comfortable with our presence right at the waters edge.<\/p>\n

The Slavonian Grebes, in particular, were very inquisitive, checking us out on and off and giving extremely close views. We also had a Kingfisher here and 2 Black-tailed Godwit flew over the site. After a bite to eat at one of the beach-side cafes, we checked the beach area and there were numerous small parties of feeding Knot<\/span>, Redshank and Oystercatcher. We called in at Farr Ings on our journey home but there was very little here, apart from several flocks of Curlew and a few Goldeneye. Also an horrendous hale storm that last around 20 minutes. Fortunately the rain didn’t fall on our Podiceps Parade during the morning! – My Year List has moved on to 115 species<\/span><\/strong>, adding Whooper Swan<\/span> and Egyptian Goose<\/span> near home on Sunday morning.. It has been very difficult deciding which pictures to put on the website, especially\u00a0out over 500 keeps!!<\/p>\n

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Slavonian Grebe<\/strong> – Winter plumage – above 8 images – Individual number 1 – Cleethorpes CP – Note the stunning red eye – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Slavonian Grebe<\/strong> – Winter plumage – above 2 images – Individual number 2 – This one was more difficult to photograph due to its location and the light conditions – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Red-necked Grebe<\/strong> – Winter plumage – above 5 images – Cleethorpes CP – \u00a0note the yellow base to the bill – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Coot<\/strong> – Cleethorpes CP – Tony Davison\u00a9 –\u00a0<\/em>Even a humble Coot makes for a good picture in the winter sunshine and reflections from the reed bed.<\/p>\n

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Black-headed Gull<\/strong> – Above 2 images – An adult in winter plumage – Cleethorpes CP – Tony Davison\u00a9 – two different individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday 30th January 2016 and Glyn, Richard and I made a visit to Cleethorpes Country Park in Lincolnshire, to see 2 species of grebe that are scarce winter visitors. To see them both on one small lake was exceptional, especially as they were very confiding individuals. A Red-necked Grebe and two Slavonian Grebe\u00a0performed very well […]<\/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":[624,18,623,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-624","category-birds","category-birdsof2016","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","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=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}