{"id":18290,"date":"2017-02-20T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=18290"},"modified":"2017-02-20T19:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T19:37:25","slug":"some-late-winter-jewels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/some-late-winter-jewels\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Late Winter Jewels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birding this last weekend was a somewhat mixed bag<\/strong><\/span>. An unseasonal Bluethroat<\/span><\/strong> had been performing very well at a local Nature Reserve near Spalding in Lincolnshire for the past week and despite the many Waxwings around this winter, I had not really caught up with any. A brief view of a single bird in Norfolk was all I had seen this year. So it was a case of trying to pull everything in and on Saturday 18th February, a visit to Hoveringham Gravel Pits in Notts, for a Black-throated Diver<\/span>, allowed for a trip round Nottinghamshire looking for flocks of Waxwings<\/span>. We found a flock of 30 in Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire and another flock in Codnor, Derbyshire. On Sunday 19th February, I nipped over to Willowtree Fen, near Spalding for the Bluethroat. A little belter of a bird, that would have performed much better, during the time I was there, if it wasn’t for the noise that was being generated from a minority of the assembled crowd of birders. That’s all I’m going to say on that subject.<\/p>\n

So a few images follow from the weekend. The year list moves on to 145 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bluethroat<\/strong> – Above 4 images – 1st winter male, possibly of the White-spotted<\/em> race – Willowtree Fen, Spalding, Lincolnshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Waxwing – adult female<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter – probably a male<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter<\/p>\n

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Waxwing – 1st winter<\/p>\n

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Above image – adult female – note the diffuse edge to the black chin patch and the narrow white tips to primaries<\/p>\n

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Waxwing<\/strong> – Above 9 images – Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire – Tony Davison\u00a9 – above image – adult male<\/em><\/p>\n

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Black-throated Diver<\/strong> – Hoveringham Gravel Pits, Nottinghamshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Goldeneye<\/strong> – A group of males displaying to three females – Hoveringham Gravel Pits, Nottinghamshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Egyptian Geese<\/strong> – Hoveringham Gravel Pits, Nottinghamshire – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Birding this last weekend was a somewhat mixed bag. An unseasonal Bluethroat had been performing very well at a local Nature Reserve near Spalding in Lincolnshire for the past week and despite the many Waxwings around this winter, I had not really caught up with any. A brief view of a single bird in Norfolk was […]<\/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":[644,18,643,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-644","category-birds","category-birdsof2017","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290","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=18290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}