{"id":1399945,"date":"2017-03-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=f2dff9391fce96b6a76fab4a3a30875a"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:17:12","slug":"marsh-harrier-and-short-eared-owls-at-elmley-nnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/marsh-harrier-and-short-eared-owls-at-elmley-nnr\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh Harrier and Short-eared Owls at Elmley NNR"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a drive down to Elmley this afternoon after work thinking it’s as good a place as any to clear the head after a very hard week of chasing numbers.<\/p>\n

I spent two hours there with little to note other than singing Skylarks, Lapwings and a few Redshank before it all kicked off.<\/p>\n

First a pair of Marsh Harrier entertained me with the male dropping to the side of the track a few yards form my car allowing a few shots as it feasted before flying off again. A couple of Hares bounced across the field and seven Buzzards soared overhead before the star birds came out to play.<\/p>\n

A single Barn Owl and at least six Short-eared Owls flew around the car for the final hour of day light giving me the opportunity to capture some more images of my favourite birds.<\/p>\n

If you visit drop a few coins in the honesty box or better still register as a friend of Elmley.<\/p>\n

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Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marsh Harrier at Elmley NNR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marsh Harrier…..stunning bird!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Short-eared Owl at Elmley NNR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Short-eared Owl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I took a drive down to Elmley this afternoon after work thinking it’s as good a place as any to clear the head after a very hard week of chasing numbers. I spent two hours there with little to note other than singing Skylarks, Lapwings and a few Redshank before it all kicked off. First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2148636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[983,724,1678,184,2231],"class_list":["post-1399945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barn-owl","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-redshank","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-skylark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399945","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\/1913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}