{"id":1018141,"date":"2016-07-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=aa4fc368cabc2d8cf11e0e575795b8bb"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:13:12","slug":"a-richer-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-richer-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A richer life"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that makes birding a truly special pastime\/passion\/hobby\/lifestyle is the fact that it enriches everyday life. A walk in the woods or even in a city become so much richer when you are aware of the birds around you and know something about the life stories.<\/p>\n

A walk yesterday through forest and then above the treeline was enriched by a host of birds in breeding mood with parents collecting food, protecting young and giving warning calls when we walked into their territories.<\/p>\n

A male Bluethroat clearly had a female on a nest right by the path and sat and called on both the way up and way down and a female Hazel Grouse had three half-grown youngsters that she was trying to keep control.<\/p>\n

The young were surprisingly good fliers and mum was communicating to them with a strange bubbling call which seemed to cause the youngsters to freeze unless we came too close.<\/p>\n

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male Bluethroat (bl\u00e5strupe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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a half grow juvenile Hazel Grouse (jerpe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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although they were surprisingly good fliers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of the things that makes birding a truly special pastime\/passion\/hobby\/lifestyle is the fact that it enriches everyday life. A walk in the woods or even in a city become so much richer when you are aware of the birds around you and know something about the life stories. A walk yesterday through forest and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":2196589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SEhR3o1CaG0\/V3i8t70dU_I\/AAAAAAAAS74\/6pL_Ri0x4987AWhkfmyEokBEZGYtWUyQgCLcB\/s640\/bluethroat%2BIMG_5928%2Bcopy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[739,1181,2036],"class_list":["post-1018141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bluethroat","tag-grouse","tag-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}