{"id":15212,"date":"2016-03-30T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T19:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:35:50","slug":"early-bird-catches-the-yellowhammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/early-bird-catches-the-yellowhammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Bird Catches the Yellowhammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning was stunning, so off early before work to my local patch.<\/strong><\/span> A small party of Yellowhammer have been coming to the feeding station, so as the sun was shining, I took the opportunity and grabbed the camera for an hour or so before heading off to the office. I wasn’t disappointed. A Swallow was also a “Patch” year tick, my earliest sighting here.<\/p>\n

The Yellowhammer is progressively disappearing from my patch. I hope they have a good breeding season as I fear there are only 3 or 4 pairs left in this area. The maximum I’ve seen together, during the winter, has been 8, five males and three female types. One of the birds that I have photographed, appears to be a possible first winter male. Very pale yellow in colour with obvious white feather edges on the wing and a silvery appearance. I can’t recall seeing this bird before. Wildlife before work, you can’t beat it..<\/p>\n

\"Yellowhammer \"Yellowhammer \"Yellowhammer<\/p>\n

Yellowhammer<\/strong> – adult male, above three images – South Derbyshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Yellowhammer<\/p>\n

Yellowhammer<\/strong> – adult female – South Derbyshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Yellowhammer<\/p>\n

Yellowhammer<\/strong> – Probably a first winter male – South Derbyshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Robin_S1Q2976\" \"Robin_S1Q2978\"<\/p>\n

Robin<\/strong> – above two images – South Derbyshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Dunnock_S1Q2967\" \"Dunnock_S1Q2956\"<\/p>\n

Dunnock<\/strong> – above two images – South Derbyshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Grey<\/p>\n

Grey Squirrel<\/strong> – several active around the feeders this morning – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning was stunning, so off early before work to my local patch. A small party of Yellowhammer have been coming to the feeding station, so as the sun was shining, I took the opportunity and grabbed the camera for an hour or so before heading off to the office. I wasn’t disappointed. A Swallow […]<\/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":[18,623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","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=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}