{"id":5322,"date":"2013-02-17T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2013-02-17T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T20:58:07","slug":"spring-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/spring-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\"><strong>Despite some very cold nights recently<\/strong><\/span>, the day time temperatures this weekend reached a balmy 10 degrees and it was quiet spring like. One of the spring time spectacles, near where I live, are the snowdrops at the Leicestershire &amp; Rutland Wildlife Reserve of Dimmingsdale. In todays afternoon sunshine, they were quiet spectacular.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBirding my local patch over the weekend has resulted in a few good year ticks &#8211; <strong>Saturday morning (16th Feb)<\/strong> I found a pair of <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Shelduck<\/span>, a really good bird for Staunton Harold Res and also an adult <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Yellow-legged Gull<\/span> roosting on one of the marker buoys. <strong>Sunday (17th Feb) <\/strong>morning was spent searching the woodland that fringes the south eastern edge of the reservoir and <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Lesser Spotted Woodpecker<\/span>, <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Marsh Tit<\/span> and <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Woodcock<\/span> were all added to the year list. Also a pair of Goldeneye still present as was the adult Yellow-legged Gull. A small flock of 48 Wigeon and 13 Pochard were also noteworthy.Not a bad weekend with some good local specialities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Mute Swan studies<\/strong> in early morning winter sunshine &#8211; you can&#39;t beat &quot;<strong>The Crack of Sparrows<\/strong>&quot; !! &#8211; <em>Tony Davison<\/em>&copy;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mute-Swan-88642416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5324\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88642416.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88642416.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88642416-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88642416-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88642416-700x500.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mute-Swan-88692417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5325\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88692417.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88692417.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88692417-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88692417-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88692417-700x500.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mute-Swan-88722415\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5326\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88722415.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88722415.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88722415-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88722415-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mute-Swan-88722415-700x499.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Snowdrops<\/strong> at Dimmingsdale Reserve, Leicestershire. <em>Tony Davison<\/em>&copy;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snowdrops-90972413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5327\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-90972413.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-90972413.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-90972413-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-90972413-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-90972413-700x539.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snowdrops-91052411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5328\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-91052411.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Snowdrops-91052411.jpg 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One of the spring time spectacles, near where I live, are the snowdrops at the Leicestershire &amp; Rutland Wildlife Reserve of Dimmingsdale. In todays afternoon sunshine, they were quiet spectacular. Birding my [&hellip;]<\/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":[203,18,529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-birds","category-birdsof2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","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=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}