{"id":2058115,"date":"2019-04-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1fc729739e812f23d51940bcf7df70f3"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:43:59","slug":"snow-buntings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/snow-buntings\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Buntings"},"content":{"rendered":"

No noticeable change in the bird life today although I did enjoy 3 Snow Buntings on one of the last snow decked fields in Maridalen but these could well have been around for a while. There was less wind today which I hoped would produce some raptor movement but I hoped in vain.<\/p>\n

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Snow Bunting (sn\u00f8spurv)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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buntings have a very specially shaped lower mandible<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Crane (trane) pair remains faithful to the same field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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note the different eye colour which according to BWP is independent of age or sex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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a visit to \u00d8Stensj\u00f8vannet revealed displaying Great Crested Grebes (toppdykker)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Black-headed Gulls (hettem\u00e5ke) are back on their breeding islands but there are not that many (yet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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a Canada x Greylag Goose hybrid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Moorhen (sivh\u00f8ne)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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the regularly returning overwintering female Pintail (stjertand) which will presumably be moving on soon (it has been noted pairing with male Mallards)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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male Tufted Duck (toppand). 2 days a bird was photographed here with a “nasal saddle” that I have tracked down to Nantes, France but I could not find it today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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No noticeable change in the bird life today although I did enjoy 3 Snow Buntings on one of the last snow decked fields in Maridalen but these could well have been around for a while. There was less wind today which I hoped would produce some raptor movement but I hoped in vain.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":2149274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1596,1077,1474,1097,2624,3174,1411],"class_list":["post-2058115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-great-crested-grebe","tag-greylag-goose","tag-mallard","tag-moorhen","tag-snow-bunting","tag-tufted-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058115","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\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}