{"id":1439224,"date":"2017-04-21T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=a606e5eede9d3aac9b111f94cc82974f"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:19:23","slug":"catching-a-few-ticks-in-tuddenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/catching-a-few-ticks-in-tuddenham\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching a few ticks in Tuddenham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday saw me going solo down at Elmley while the Jims enjoyed Vange Marshes Stilts.<\/p>\n

I had good but brief views of a day flying Barn Owl, a Peregrine hunting the marshes with several Buzzards and Marsh Harriers.<\/p>\n

Hares were putting on a show and the mating rituals of Lapwing and Redshank were in full flow.<\/p>\n

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Redshank fight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the drive home I picked up a year tick with three Swallows in Barking. Sunday morning saw an early meet up with the Jims and a short drive up the A11 to Tuddenham.<\/p>\n

On the heath we enjoyed good scope views of a pair of Stone Curlew before picking out a couple of Wood Larks to give the boys a year tick. A surprise came when we first heard then enjoyed good views of an early Cuckoo and then on the drive out picked up decent views of a pair of Grey Partridge.<\/p>\n

Another year tick came in the form of a couple of Willow Warblers singing their hearts out.<\/p>\n

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Cuckoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cuckoo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey Partridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whilst in the Brecks we made a short detour to Santon Downham where after a long walk down river we eventually heard a Lesser Spot call to add to the drumming heard on a previous visit and giving a “heard only” year tick.<\/p>\n

The trees along the route held good numbers of Brambling, Redpoll and Siskin but a fly over Goshawk took top spot. Again Wood Larks displayed in the clearings and seem to be thriving in the Brecks.<\/p>\n

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Wood Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Skylark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Year list now 190<\/p>\n

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Saturday saw me going solo down at Elmley while the Jims enjoyed Vange Marshes Stilts. I had good but brief views of a day flying Barn Owl, a Peregrine hunting the marshes with several Buzzards and Marsh Harriers. Hares were putting on a show and the mating rituals of Lapwing and Redshank were in full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2148698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[983,2127,535,2028,8468,2365,2948,724,1967,523,2213,1678,2229,2231,756,876,8158],"class_list":["post-1439224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barn-owl","tag-brambling","tag-buzzard","tag-cuckoo","tag-goshawk","tag-hare","tag-lapwing","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-partridge","tag-peregrine","tag-redpoll","tag-redshank","tag-siskin","tag-skylark","tag-stone-curlew","tag-willow-warbler","tag-woodlark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439224","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=1439224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}