{"id":911718,"date":"2016-05-13T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=3e15a78402da1dd20778df47816c353b"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:07:22","slug":"cleaning-up-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/cleaning-up-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up in the valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the travelling of the last week I fancied a local jaunt this morning. I popped down to Cornmill Meadow and with a big tip off from Jim I quickly found his Grasshopper Warbler and whilst here a Cuckoo was heard too.<\/p>\n

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Aggressive Canada Goose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I moved on to Fishers Green and walked the circular route under the pilons back over the bridge and returned to the car park. Surprisingly I heard no Nightingale on my first walk around but in the brambles on the lake side of the river I found two Lesser Whitethroat, four Garden Warblers and a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers.<\/p>\n

Pressing on I soon heard the distinct calls of Reed Warblers and then found a couple flitting about in the reedbed. A pair of Wren were busy nest building on the river bank and another Cuckoo was calling from the picnic area.<\/p>\n

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Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My second trip around and this time I found Nightingales, three of them singing in somewhat muted fashion in the dull grey conditions. I carried on up the path towards Holyfield Lake stopping to watch a pair of Little Grebe fishing.<\/p>\n

From Weir hide I scanned the skies finding it alive with hirundines many of which were Swifts and then a single Hobby high up in the clouds to give me my seventh year tick of the morning.<\/p>\n

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Common Whitethroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Little Grebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Year list now 225<\/p>\n

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With all the travelling of the last week I fancied a local jaunt this morning. I popped down to Cornmill Meadow and with a big tip off from Jim I quickly found his Grasshopper Warbler and whilst here a Cuckoo was heard too.       I moved on to Fishers Green and walked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1913,"featured_media":2196497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-FygAMA714Yk\/VydCASW8ZtI\/AAAAAAAALHs\/m3BBxTj9feEpv837ccUKF5a8RGIuWUImACLcB\/s640\/Canada%2BGoose.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1463,784,2161,2173,2221],"class_list":["post-911718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-canada-goose","tag-garden-warbler","tag-great-spotted-woodpecker","tag-lesser-whitethroat","tag-reed-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911718","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=911718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}