{"id":2057731,"date":"2019-04-04T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=6a3371e0fce3d4778c0d754b5e912a90"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:42:09","slug":"a-quick-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-quick-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent some time this week looking for the Epping Harrier without any joy but still had plenty of action with Red Kites, Buzzards and Sparrowhawks all showing in good numbers. A male Goshawk and a pair of Raven added to the drama as did a day calling Tawny Owl, lots of Deer and a few Hares.<\/p>\n

A day at Lakenheath gave me a couple of year ticks in the week with a couple of Little-ringed Plover on Hockwold washland and a pair of Garganey on New Fen. The number of Marsh Harriers displaying from Joist Fen was a real spectacle with at least fourteen birds in the air together. A couple of Bittern called and Kingfishers came and went as I waited in vain for any sign of the breeding Cranes.<\/p>\n

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Greylag Goose at Lakenheath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Dunge we landed another year tick with a single Sandwich Tern and again found the Cattle Egrets by Boulderwell Farm.<\/p>\n

A Peregrine and Black Redstart by the power station along with a few Wheatear on the shingle made up the best of the day but we also jammed on one of Britains two colonies of Grey-backed mining Bee on the walk to Denis’s Hide almost in the car park at Dunge.<\/p>\n

A decent few days but I’m still waiting for the real spring migrants to start pouring in.<\/p>\n

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Grey-backed mining Bee at Dungeness RSPB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-backed mining Bee at Dungeness RSPB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey Heron at Lakenheath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lapwing at Elmley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lapwings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Reed Bunting at Dungeness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Muntjac at Lakenheath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Marsh Harrier at Elmley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lapwing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lapwings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’ve spent some time this week looking for the Epping Harrier without any joy but still had plenty of action with Red Kites, Buzzards and Sparrowhawks all showing in good numbers. A male Goshawk and a pair of Raven added to the drama as did a day calling Tawny Owl, lots of Deer and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2149201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[783,535,1634,3957,8468,1657,1474,2948,786,2219,1613,741,2743,536],"class_list":["post-2057731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-redstart","tag-buzzard","tag-cattle-egret","tag-garganey","tag-goshawk","tag-grey-heron","tag-greylag-goose","tag-lapwing","tag-red-kite","tag-reed-bunting","tag-sandwich-tern","tag-sparrowhawk","tag-tawny-owl","tag-wheatear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057731","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=2057731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}