{"id":17247,"date":"2016-12-12T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=17247"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:22:20","slug":"second-bite-at-the-dusky-thrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/second-bite-at-the-dusky-thrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Bite at the Dusky Thrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">As the Dusky Thrush was still frequenting gardens and fields around the small Derbyshire village of Beeley<\/span><\/strong>, I decided to go back on Sunday for another viewing, in the hope of getting some better images. This bird is proving to be very difficult to obtain a really good photograph, despite a number of good efforts from a wide range of well known bird photographers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weather has been the main culprit, as yet I don&#8217;t think there has been a full sunny day since it was discovered a week ago. It has always been very grey, cloudy, misty and foggy, all the wrong conditions for photography. The orchard in which it seems to favour, is also a tricky site and it is a case of being in the right place at the right time, when the bird appears. It doesn&#8217;t seem to hang around for any length of time, only giving tantalising and brief views for the camera and it also disappears for long periods of time before it eventually&nbsp;returns, only a few times during the day, to&nbsp;it&#8217;s favoured orchard. The first few hours of the morning seem to be the best time to see the bird well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I was very pleased with the following few photographs that I took on the morning of Sunday 11th December, during the four hours I spent at the site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0394-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0403-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0448-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dusky-Thrush_J4X0459-700x433.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dusky Thrush<\/strong> &#8211; probably a 1st winter male &#8211; Beeley, Derbyshire &#8211; 11th December 2016 &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Dusky Thrush was still frequenting gardens and fields around the small Derbyshire village of Beeley, I decided to go back on Sunday for another viewing, in the hope of getting some better images. This bird is proving to be very difficult to obtain a really good photograph, despite a number of good efforts [&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":[624,18,623,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17247","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\/17247","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=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}