{"id":19045,"date":"2017-04-18T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=19045"},"modified":"2017-04-18T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:27:21","slug":"an-easter-break-in-suffolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/an-easter-break-in-suffolk\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easter Break in Suffolk"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent our Easter weekend in Suffolk, staying at a superb Pub in the quaint village of Dunwich<\/strong><\/span>. A few miles from Minsmere, 5 minutes from the National Trust reserve of Dunwich Heath and a short drive to the small towns of Southwold and Aldeburgh. A few hours each day was spent at Minsmere and looking for the rare Dartford Warbler<\/span> <\/strong>on the heath. Very few migrants seemed to be in and I was a little disappointed in not hearing a Nightingale, I think they are a little late in arriving this year. Bitterns<\/span> were booming, Bearded Tits<\/span> were flitting across the reed-beds and several Marsh harrier were quartering the marshes. Plenty of Mediterranean Gulls were paired up and I did manage to see a few Dartford Warbler, despite the unfavourable conditions. A few Sandwich Terns<\/span> had arrived back along with a single Common Tern and with a brief Water Pipit at Dunwich on the beach area, I managed a few year ticks to boost the Year List to 178.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dartford Warbler<\/strong> – Dunwich Heath, Suffolk – Easily seen from the public footpaths, but often distant. – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Avocet – above 5 images – Minsmere, Suffolk – Tony Davison\u00a9 – There was plenty of Avocet activity on the reserve, as birds start to pair up and stake out their territories<\/p>\n

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Black-tailed Godwit<\/strong> – above 2 images – Minsmere, Suffolk – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em> –  These waders look so much better in their summer plumage<\/p>\n

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Common Pheasant<\/strong> – Minsmere, Suffolk – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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Teal<\/strong> – drake – Minsmere, Suffolk – Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

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We spent our Easter weekend in Suffolk, staying at a superb Pub in the quaint village of Dunwich. A few miles from Minsmere, 5 minutes from the National Trust reserve of Dunwich Heath and a short drive to the small towns of Southwold and Aldeburgh. A few hours each day was spent at Minsmere and […]<\/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-19045","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\/19045","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=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}