{"id":15280,"date":"2016-04-18T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=15280"},"modified":"2016-04-20T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:28:37","slug":"common-birds-boring-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/common-birds-boring-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Birds – Boring, Boring??"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think not<\/strong><\/span> – in our\u00a0modern birding scene, so much emphasis seems to be made on rare birds, it\u00a0seems to me that we can easily pass by the common stuff. I spent a few enjoyable hours on Saturday 16th April, within 10 minutes from home, just watching common birds. I don’t think they’re boring at all..<\/p>\n

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Brambling<\/strong> – female – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – It’s not often they stay into mid April in South Derbyshire. – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Brambling<\/strong> – male – Above three images, South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Great Spotted Woodpecker<\/strong> – male – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – A real poser – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Great Crested Grebe<\/strong> – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mandarin<\/strong> – Drake – Above three images – A real surprise encounter. South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Siskin<\/strong> – male – Above 5 images – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Several males still around –\u00a0Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Greenfinch<\/strong> – male – Above two images – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Plenty of boisterous males – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chaffinch<\/strong> – male – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Goldfinch<\/strong> – Certainly worth their weight in gold – Above three images – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blue Tit<\/strong> – South Derbyshire – April 2016 – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think not – in our\u00a0modern birding scene, so much emphasis seems to be made on rare birds, it\u00a0seems to me that we can easily pass by the common stuff. I spent a few enjoyable hours on Saturday 16th April, within 10 minutes from home, just watching common birds. I don’t think they’re boring at […]<\/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-15280","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\/15280","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=15280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}