{"id":5380,"date":"2013-03-03T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2013-03-03T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T21:48:28","slug":"unexpected-year-ticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/unexpected-year-ticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Year Ticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong><span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\">A bit of a mixed weekend birding wise<\/span><\/strong>. Saturday morning (2nd March) my usual early morning visit to SHRes. Not a great deal about, still three Goldeneye, also&nbsp;64 Wigeon; 12 Pochard and 10 Teal were of note. A male <strong>Reed Bunting<\/strong> on the 1st March put me on 85 for the year. Still a few Redwings about. An afternoon trip to Focus Optics, near Coventry was a must, as I needed&nbsp;to get my scope checked over. Something not right in the eyepiece, so off to Swarovski for a check-over. A nice <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Ring-necked Parakeet<\/span> feeding on Millet at the Bird Feeder in the garden was&nbsp;a surprise! I&#39;m year ticking it!!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\">Sunday&nbsp;3rd March<\/span><\/strong> decided to take a trip with Richard &amp; Pete, to the NEC and visit the <strong>FOCUS ON IMAGING<\/strong> exhibition. Interesting show but not what I expected. A visit to the nearby Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Reserve at <span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\">Brandon Marsh,<\/span> got us a fine drake <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Green-winged Teal<\/span>, a little distant for anything other than a record picture. Nevertheless&nbsp;a&nbsp;rather nice bonus year tick.<span style=\"color:#FF0000;\"> <strong>So the Year List moved unexpected on to 106.<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green-winged-Teal-94712483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5381\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94712483.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94712483.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94712483-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94712483-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94712483-700x502.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green-winged-Teal-94852484\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5382\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94852484.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94852484.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94852484-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94852484-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-94852484-700x413.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green-winged-Teal-95552487\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5384\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95552487.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95552487.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95552487-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95552487-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95552487-700x455.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green-winged-Teal-95462486\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5383\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95462486.jpg\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95462486.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95462486-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95462486-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Green-winged-Teal-95462486-700x465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA drake <strong>Eurasian Teal<\/strong> for comparison.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote the vertical white breast stripe and lack of complete golden border around the&nbsp;green face patch on <span style=\"font-size: 13px; \">&nbsp;above photos of&nbsp;<\/span>Green-winged Teal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a mixed weekend birding wise. Saturday morning (2nd March) my usual early morning visit to SHRes. Not a great deal about, still three Goldeneye, also&nbsp;64 Wigeon; 12 Pochard and 10 Teal were of note. A male Reed Bunting on the 1st March put me on 85 for the year. Still a few [&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":[203,18,529,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-birds","category-birdsof2013","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380","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=5380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}