{"id":7182,"date":"2014-03-23T17:57:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:26:46","slug":"a-little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/a-little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFor the past week, I've been watching five Yellowhammer, regularly coming to one of the feeding stations at my local patch at Staunton Harold Reservoir. So this morning I spent my Sunday breakfast photographing them. Unfortunately I could only spare an hour due to family issues. Nevertheless, several males were reasonably obliging. \n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Yellowhammer is one of the brightest and most conspicuously yellow birds. As a child I can remember listening to the Yellowhammer's distinctive "Little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese" song at Gibralter Point in Lincolnshire. The song seemed to come from every sea buckthorn bush and it was one of the first bird songs I became familiar with. These days, and I find it difficult to believe, the Yellowhammer is becoming a rare bird. At Staunton Harold, the species is down to three or four pairs at the most. During last year's winter period, the maximum I recorded at the feeding station was nine birds, five males and four females. This year's winter period, so far, the maximum I have counted has been six, three males & three females. I fear that it will soon disappear, just like the Corn Bunting and what a disaster that would be..\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tAbove seven images – Yellowhammer<\/strong> – male – Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tRobin<\/strong> – Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tDunnock<\/strong> – Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire – Tony Davison©<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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For the past week, I've been watching five Yellowhammer, regularly coming to one of the feeding stations at my local patch at Staunton Harold Reservoir. So this morning I spent my Sunday breakfast photographing them. Unfortunately I could only spare an hour due to family issues. Nevertheless, several males were reasonably obliging.  The Yellowhammer is one of the brightest and most […]<\/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":[18,600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","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=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}