{"id":2058371,"date":"2019-05-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7b518975b784c9d7147bc991df2e259b"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:43:41","slug":"last-of-the-wintering-bluethroats-haradh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/last-of-the-wintering-bluethroats-haradh\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of the Wintering Bluethroats – Haradh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Haradh area recently we saw good numbers Bluethroats. There were calling from an area of long grass in a partly cut pivot field and consisted mainly of Red-spotted Bluethroats but two White-spotted birds were also seen.<\/p>\n

There were double figures seen which is a good number of a non-wetland area and were probably the last wintering birds being joined by migrants on their way to their breeding grounds.<\/p>\n

They are really beautiful birds but not so easy to get good photos of as they seldom allow close approach. Other birds seen in the fields nearby were Namaqua Dove and Water Pipit.<\/p>\n

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Red-spotted Bluethroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-spotted Bluethroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-spotted Bluethroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Water Pipit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Namaqua Dove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Haradh area recently we saw good numbers Bluethroats. There were calling from an area of long grass in a partly cut pivot field and consisted mainly of Red-spotted Bluethroats but two White-spotted birds were also seen. There were double figures seen which is a good number of a non-wetland area and were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[739,2736,2420,877],"class_list":["post-2058371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bluethroat","tag-namaqua-dove","tag-red-spotted-bluethroat","tag-water-pipit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058371","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}