{"id":9645,"date":"2014-12-14T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T06:19:37","slug":"local-stuff-on-the-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/local-stuff-on-the-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Stuff on the Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>14th December 2014 &#8211; A quiet weekend after Poland.<\/strong><\/span> I spent a few hours doing my local patch at Staunton Harold with the highlights being a large flock of around 40 Redpolls, amongst which I discovered at least 4 <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Mealies.<\/span> A couple of drake Goldeneye still around, 5 Little Grebe, 9 Teal, 5 Wigeon and a fly-over adult Yellow-legged Gull. The feeding station was active but no sign of the male Tree Sparrow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9926854.jpg\" alt=\"ROBIN 9926854\" width=\"1150\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9926854.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9926854-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9926854-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9926854-700x531.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9929855.jpg\" alt=\"ROBIN 9929855\" width=\"1150\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9929855.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9929855-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9929855-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9929855-700x511.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9978857.jpg\" alt=\"ROBIN 9978857\" width=\"1150\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9978857.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9978857-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9978857-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ROBIN-9978857-700x528.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robin<\/strong> &#8211; Staunton Harold reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NUTHATCH-0113853.jpg\" alt=\"NUTHATCH 0113853\" width=\"1150\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NUTHATCH-0113853.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NUTHATCH-0113853-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NUTHATCH-0113853-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NUTHATCH-0113853-700x501.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuthatch<\/strong> &#8211; Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0048844.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSE SPARROW 0048844\" width=\"1150\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0048844.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0048844-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0048844-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0048844-700x522.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0053846.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSE SPARROW 0053846\" width=\"1150\" height=\"890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0053846.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0053846-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0053846-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HOUSE-SPARROW-0053846-700x541.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>House Sparrow<\/strong>&#8211; male &#8211; Above two images &#8211;\u00a0Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0102852.jpg\" alt=\"DUNNOCK 0102852\" width=\"1150\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0102852.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0102852-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0102852-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0102852-700x462.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0090851.jpg\" alt=\"DUNNOCK 0090851\" width=\"1150\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0090851.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0090851-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0090851-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DUNNOCK-0090851-700x474.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dunnock<\/strong> &#8211; Above two images &#8211;\u00a0Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COAL-TIT-0067848.jpg\" alt=\"COAL TIT 0067848\" width=\"1150\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COAL-TIT-0067848.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COAL-TIT-0067848-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COAL-TIT-0067848-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/COAL-TIT-0067848-700x496.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coal Tit<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-9964856.jpg\" alt=\"CHAFFINCH 9964856\" width=\"1150\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-9964856.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-9964856-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-9964856-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-9964856-700x470.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-0064847.jpg\" alt=\"CHAFFINCH 0064847\" width=\"1150\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-0064847.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-0064847-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-0064847-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CHAFFINCH-0064847-700x399.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chaffinch<\/strong> &#8211; female &#8211; Above two images &#8211;\u00a0Staunton Harold Reservoir, Derbyshire &#8211; <em>Tony Davison\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14th December 2014 &#8211; A quiet weekend after Poland. I spent a few hours doing my local patch at Staunton Harold with the highlights being a large flock of around 40 Redpolls, amongst which I discovered at least 4 Mealies. A couple of drake Goldeneye still around, 5 Little Grebe, 9 Teal, 5 Wigeon and [&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-9645","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\/9645","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=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}