{"id":2056810,"date":"2019-03-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=3c69dd7fe4535e02d5039c7cda2601e2"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:42:39","slug":"a-week-in-the-forest-of-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-week-in-the-forest-of-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in the forest of Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back from a week away in the Forest of Dean with my grandson with limited birding opportunities as the week was geared around ensuring he had a good time.<\/p>\n

I added a few year ticks with Ravens in the garden of our cottage and I twitched the Yellow-browed Warbler a couple of miles from where we stayed and found my first Chiffchaff there too. I dipped on the Glossy Ibis at Newport but did manage to pick up the Red-rumped Swallow with Swallow and Sand Martin at Cmw Ivy whilst on my way down to Rossilli in search of Chough where I found a group of eight feeding by the coastguards hut at Worms Head.<\/p>\n

I had great views of several Goshawk at New Fancy and another single bird whilst walking at Mallard Pike. Hawfinch and Crossbill were seen but only as fly overs.<\/p>\n

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One of five Jays at Parkend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Loads of Raven in the area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kestrel at Worm Head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Grebe at Cannop Ponds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nice blood moon while there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nuthatch at Parkend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marsh Tit at Parkend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mandarin at Cannop Ponds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mallard at Cannop Ponds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red Kite…..wouldn’t be a trip to Wales without some Red Kite action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Robin at Parkend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just back from a week away in the Forest of Dean with my grandson with limited birding opportunities as the week was geared around ensuring he had a good time. I added a few year ticks with Ravens in the garden of our cottage and I twitched the Yellow-browed Warbler a couple of miles from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2149227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2123,776,2025,8760,749,8468,3053,828,1670,1097,2179,2193,1129,786,3981,982],"class_list":["post-2056810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blackbird","tag-chiffchaff","tag-chough","tag-crossbill","tag-glossy-ibis","tag-goshawk","tag-hawfinch","tag-kestrel","tag-little-grebe","tag-mallard","tag-marsh-tit","tag-nuthatch","tag-raven","tag-red-kite","tag-red-rumped-swallow","tag-sand-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056810","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=2056810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}