{"id":494,"date":"2012-05-08T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=494"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:21:05","slug":"a-mediterranean-jewel-8th-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/a-mediterranean-jewel-8th-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mediterranean Jewel &#8211; 8th May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">They say that lightening never strikes twice, well it did this morning.<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/a-mediterranean-jewel-8th-may-2012\/shapeimage_2-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-495\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_26.png\" title=\"shapeimage_2\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_26.png 400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_26-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Heavy overnight rain suggested that it might be worth checking out Staunton Harold Reservoir, my local patch, before work. Maybe a Little Gull or Black Tern could have dropped in, you never know. Anyway I decided to call in for 5-10 minutes before heading off to the office. I arrived in the car park around 8:30am. Parked up, wound down the car window, grabbed my &ldquo;bins&rdquo; and looked across the water. The first bird I looked at was a stunning adult Red-rumped Swallow. I could hardly contain myself, I then realised, No Phone, No Scope, No Camera! Sometimes it pays to leave all the gear at home!!<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I checked the bird again to make sure I wasn&rsquo;t hallucinating &nbsp;and joy, it was still feeding high over the water. So I ran up to the Severn Trent Offices, managed to find Chris, one of the local wardens and yelled out Red-rumped Swallow. Can you phone it out for me. In no time at all got Chris onto the bird.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fairly quickly it was out to some of the local birders and was soon on the Pager. I managed to get two other local birders, Alan &amp; Robin on it before the bird drifted off North, over fields and out of sight. It was lost too view around 8:55am. It was relocated at Swarkestone Gravel Pits around 11:30am but was only present for around 5 -10 minutes. So Garganey yesterday, <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">RRS today &#8211; what next !!<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">MY ROUGH NOTES ON THE BIRD &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Year list now on<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/index.php\/2012\/05\/08\/a-mediterranean-jewel-8th-may-2012\/redrumpedswallow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496\" height=\"969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RedRumpedSwallow.jpg\" title=\"RedRumpedSwallow\" width=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RedRumpedSwallow.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RedRumpedSwallow-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/RedRumpedSwallow-494x700.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; They say that lightening never strikes twice, well it did this morning. &nbsp; &nbsp; Heavy overnight rain suggested that it might be worth checking out Staunton Harold Reservoir, my local patch, before work. Maybe a Little Gull or Black Tern could have dropped in, you never know. Anyway I decided to call in for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[189,82],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-birds","category-birdsof2012","tag-red-rumped-swallow","tag-staunton-harold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}