{"id":428,"date":"2012-05-27T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=428"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:21:53","slug":"428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/428\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenland – A special Kind of Habitat – 27th May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Fenland area of East Anglia is a very unique habitat and a days birding in the Fens can be very spectacular and rewarding. <\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tToday was one of those days when everything “Clicked” into place, with a little perseverance. At one of the RSPB reserves in Suffolk, we managed to see most of the Fenland specialities and after a great deal of patience I managed to connect with a singing male Golden Oriole,<\/span> the star bird of the day. Numerous Hobby<\/span> & Marsh Harrier were enjoying the hot sunshine and there were several Bittern<\/span> on the wing. Most unusual, as they tend to be very skulking. Several were emitting their Booming call that echoed around the vast reed beds and Bearded Tit<\/span> & Reed Warblers were seen and heard  amongst the reeds. One of the star birds that put in an appearance was Common Crane<\/span>. A bonus and a magnificent sight. Several species of dragonfly were also on the wing but butterflies were remarkably scarce, despite 28c degrees of temperature.Later in the day another reserve produced 4 Stone Curlew<\/span>, a Wood Lark <\/span>and a male Brimstone, my first for the year. My year list moves on to 214.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBittern <\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tBittern<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tPeacock<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tLakenheath Fen, Suffolk<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tSmall heath – Weeting Heath<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tLakenheath Fen, Suffolk<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tMarsh Harrier, female.<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fenland area of East Anglia is a very unique habitat and a days birding in the Fens can be very spectacular and rewarding. Today was one of those days when everything “Clicked” into place, with a little perseverance. At one of the RSPB reserves in Suffolk, we managed to see most of the Fenland […]<\/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":[19,18,262,17,171],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-birds","category-birdsof2012","category-britishbutterflies","category-butterflies","tag-lakenheath-fen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}