{"id":6814,"date":"2014-01-05T21:53:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2014-01-05T21:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T21:53:01","slug":"2014-kicks-off-with-a-yankie-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/2014-kicks-off-with-a-yankie-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Kicks off with a &#8220;Yankie&#8221; Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\"><strong>My year list kick started today with first days birding for 2014 at Eyebrook Reservoir &amp; Rutland Water in Leicestershire.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span>These two sites are superb for a good variety of birds and being very convenient as they are close to home. A good selection of birds were on view this morning &#8211; at <span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\">Eyebrook<\/span> &#8211; best bird was a North American &nbsp;<span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Ring-necked Duck<\/span>, a female;<span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;2 <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Ruddy Shelduck<\/span>, 1 drake <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Smew<\/span>; 2 <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Red Kite<\/span>&nbsp;were the main highlights. Many Teal, Widgeon and Gadwall here and also&nbsp;a <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Little Owl<\/span> in a nearby regular spot. At <span style=\"color:#FF8C00;\">Rutland Water<\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Black-throated Diver<\/span> and <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Great Northern Diver<\/span> off the dam, also here a <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Black Redstart<\/span>. Off the north arm &#8211; 3 <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Long-tailed Duck<\/span>, 3 Goosander, 4 <span style=\"color:#FFFF00;\">Black-necked Grebe<\/span>. Huge numbers of Teal and Wigeon, many Goldeneye, a Curlew and several Redshank helped to kick start my 2014 Year List.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ring-necked-Duck-93783722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6815\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93783722.jpg\" width=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93783722.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93783722-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93783722-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93783722-700x434.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ring-necked-Duck-93933723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6816\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93933723.jpg\" width=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93933723.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93933723-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93933723-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ring-necked-Duck-93933723-700x451.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Ring-necked Duck, female&nbsp;<\/strong> &#8211; Eyebrook Reservoir, Leicestershire &#8211; 5th January 2014 &#8211; <em>Tony Davison&copy;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My year list kick started today with first days birding for 2014 at Eyebrook Reservoir &amp; Rutland Water in Leicestershire.&nbsp;These two sites are superb for a good variety of birds and being very convenient as they are close to home. A good selection of birds were on view this morning &#8211; at Eyebrook &#8211; best [&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":[530,18,600,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","category-birds","category-birdsof2014","category-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","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=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}