{"id":521,"date":"2012-04-29T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=521"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:20:39","slug":"a-wintery-april-in-lincolnshire-29th-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/a-wintery-april-in-lincolnshire-29th-april-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wintery April in Lincolnshire? &#8211; 29th April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Spring seemed to have disappeared this morning as we arrived at the RSPB Reserve at Frampton Marsh near Boston, Lincolnshire.<\/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\/04\/29\/a-wintery-april-in-lincolnshire-29th-april-2012\/shapeimage_2-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-522\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_29.png\" title=\"shapeimage_2\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_29.png 400w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/shapeimage_29-300x225.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;\">Non-stop rain, a howling gale and freezing cold. Just the day for great photography &#8211; NOT. In heavy rain I managed just a few landscape shots of this great reserve but no bird photography to-day. We were the only two birders at the reserve, well it was only 8am on a Sunday morning and the weather was foul. We did managed to find the Black-winged Stilt, along with a few Whimbrel, a good selection of waders on the flooded fields &#8211; Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Dunlin, Redshank, Ringed Plover, good numbers of Avocet, 2 Bar-tailed Godwit, 1 Turnstone. Also 2 Arctic Tern, 4 Yellow Wagtail, small numbers of Swallow, 4 Goldeneye, still large numbers of Brent Geese (c400) and a drake Scaup were the main highlights. On the way home we saw a Cuckoo battling against the cold, the heavy rain &amp; strong wind &#8211; I thought to myself, what on earth is happening to our climate? &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">With Swift &amp; House Martin at Staunton Harold Reservoir in the week, my year list has moved on to 190.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">A couple of shots of Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire &#8211; April, grey cold &amp; wet!!<\/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\/04\/29\/a-wintery-april-in-lincolnshire-29th-april-2012\/landscape57601309\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-524\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57601309.jpg\" title=\"Landscape57601309\" width=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57601309.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57601309-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/index.php\/2012\/04\/29\/a-wintery-april-in-lincolnshire-29th-april-2012\/landscape57581307\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-523\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-523\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57581307.jpg\" title=\"Landscape57581307\" width=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57581307.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Landscape57581307-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Spring seemed to have disappeared this morning as we arrived at the RSPB Reserve at Frampton Marsh near Boston, Lincolnshire. &nbsp; &nbsp; Non-stop rain, a howling gale and freezing cold. Just the day for great photography &#8211; NOT. In heavy rain I managed just a few landscape shots of this great reserve but no [&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":[25],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-birds","category-birdsof2012","tag-frampton-marsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}