{"id":1897878,"date":"2018-04-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=895dcaa19341ec7200d6127a2485b95d"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:29:28","slug":"amazing-firecrest-fall-at-dunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/amazing-firecrest-fall-at-dunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Firecrest fall at Dunge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wanting Bluethroat for a year tick we headed down to Dunge this morning arriving just after first light.<\/p>\n

We found the gorse bushes alive with Firecrests and I mean alive, simply dozens of the little gems feeding frantically after the long crossing.<\/p>\n

A few Goldcrests flitted around with them and a couple of singing Chiffchaff added to the spectacle but the target bird failed to show despite a good search and long wait.<\/p>\n

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Firecrest at Dunge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Firecrest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Firecrest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Just magical<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the lighthouse we found more Firecrest and a Black Redstart showed in the power station as we approached the sea. From the shingle we watched Gannets and Auks and had a couple of Sandwich Tern fly down.<\/p>\n

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If it moved it was probably a Firecrest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Elmley the usual suspects showed as did a pair of Peregrine hunting the usual suspects and entertaining us in the process.<\/p>\n

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Redshank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wanting Bluethroat for a year tick we headed down to Dunge this morning arriving just after first light. We found the gorse bushes alive with Firecrests and I mean alive, simply dozens of the little gems feeding frantically after the long crossing. A few Goldcrests flitted around with them and a couple of singing Chiffchaff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2148920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[783,739,776,8327,431,2152,523,1678,1613],"class_list":["post-1897878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-redstart","tag-bluethroat","tag-chiffchaff","tag-firecrest","tag-gannet","tag-goldcrest","tag-peregrine","tag-redshank","tag-sandwich-tern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897878","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=1897878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}