{"id":335,"date":"2012-07-15T20:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=335"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:23:12","slug":"local-patch-strikes-again-15th-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/local-patch-strikes-again-15th-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Patch Strikes Again – 15th July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tI decide to take a walk round Staunton Harold Reservoir this morning, my “Local Patch”.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tIt proved to be a good move as no sooner on site I discovered two female Common Scoter<\/span>. The birds were sat in the middle of the reservoir at the dam end and the first record here for a number of years. These sea-duck seem to be regularly encountered on inland waters during July. They were very distant & I could only manage a heavily cropped record shot. Also nearby on one of the marker buoys the regular near adult Yellow-legged Gull, was roosting. I continued to walk along the main path, after a few minutes I was attracted to the alarm calls of Swallows and suddenly a Hobby flew past and disappeared just as quick. What a brief but superb encounter. There was little else here on the bird front. A few Meadow Brown butterflies were on the wing in the warm sunshine.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tI then headed off to Foremark Reservoir, ever in the hope of the elusive Holly Blue. I’m hoping to discover a second brood, as these should be on the wing towards the end of July. There were a few Ringlets, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood and Red Admiral. Plenty of singing Chiifchaff & Blackcap but not much else about. Not a bad morning.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tCommon Scoter – Record shot<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tBarley – Foremark Reservoir<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tMeadow Brown, male – Foremark Reservoir<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tRinglet – Foremark Reservoir<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tRed Admiral – Foremark Reservoir<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tSpeckled Wood – Foremark Reservoir<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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I decide to take a walk round Staunton Harold Reservoir this morning, my “Local Patch”.     It proved to be a good move as no sooner on site I discovered two female Common Scoter. The birds were sat in the middle of the reservoir at the dam end and the first record here for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[19,18,262,17],"tags":[167,166,96,169,119,156,158,168,78],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-birds","category-birdsof2012","category-britishbutterflies","tag-barley","tag-common-scoter","tag-foremark-reservoir","tag-hobby","tag-meadow-brown","tag-ringlet","tag-speckled-wood","tag-swallow","tag-yellow-legged-gull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}