{"id":31301,"date":"2013-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:37:08","slug":"shimabara-athletic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/shimabara-athletic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimabara Athletic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I decided to try again for Ryukyu Minivet at Shimabara Athletic Park. The western side of the sports park has a forested area with a couple of short trails which backs onto a mountainous area.<\/p>\n

The deepest part of this forest has a small, usually dry, pond-like area. I have checked this location at other times of year and been disappointed, however this morning it was very active.<\/p>\n

I only stayed at the pond area for about 20 minutes, but in that time I saw several species such as Pale Thrush, Brown-eared Bulbul, Eurasian Siskin, Brambling, Japanese White-eye, Red-flanked Bluetail, Meadow Bunting, Elegant Bunting and, to my surprise, Grey Bunting.<\/p>\n

The Minivet did not appear, however, but I did glimpse something that may have been a hawfinch.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this variety of species means the pond area is definitely worth dedicating an entire morning to in the near future!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Red-flanked Bluetail (male)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I decided to try again for Ryukyu Minivet at Shimabara Athletic Park. The western side of the sports park has a forested area with a couple of short trails which backs onto a mountainous area. The deepest part of this forest has a small, usually dry, pond-like area. I have checked this location […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/red-flanked-bluetail-male-9593.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2873,2874,2449,2712,2710],"class_list":["post-31301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-elegant-bunting","tag-grey-bunting","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-red-flanked-bluetail","tag-ryukyu-minivet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}