{"id":1052,"date":"2013-07-02T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2013-07-02T22:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T22:18:51","slug":"the-day-after-the-walk-on-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/the-day-after-the-walk-on-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The day after the FoBM BOG walk on 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Sunday after the Friends of Baildon Moor and Bradford Ornithological Group walk I decided to go up to look for Whitethroat near the Scout camp. I heard Whitethroat but didn’t manage to see any. However I did hear plenty of Willow Warblers, and eventually, after being quiet for a while, I got sight of a Willow Warbler chick<\/p>\n

\"Willow<\/a><\/p>\n

And even caught sight of them being fed.<\/p>\n

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After moving trying to get sight of Whitethroat I did see this moss which I am told is Polytrichum commune<\/p>\n

\"Polytrichum<\/a><\/p>\n

and an Oak tree with these Oak apple galls growing on it<\/p>\n

\"Oak<\/a><\/p>\n

In the same area there were also several Orchids. There are not many of these around and so some would say that I should nor publicise that they exist but I think that if people know that there are several plants on Baildon Moor that are rare then they are lees likely to want to pick them and threaten their existence.<\/p>\n

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I then went looking for a particular shot of Swallows but that didn’t come to pass. To get to the place I was thinking of I followed the same route as on Saturday and saw Goldfinch on Sconce Lane again.<\/p>\n

\"Goldfinch,<\/a><\/p>\n

Further round the walk, near Weecher Reservoir,I was able to spend more time watching the Oyster Catchers and Curlew<\/p>\n

\"Oyster<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Curlew<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Curlew<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oyster<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Oyster<\/a><\/p>\n

And then on the way back I got sight of Willow Warbler chicks again<\/p>\n

\"Willow<\/a><\/p>\n

I spent quite a few minutes quietly watching and listening for the birds in the trees and gorse when a woman walked past and asked me if I was all right. Was she questioning my sanity or physical health? I told her I was OK but at the same time I was thinking that with a pair of binoculars round my neck and a long lensed camera over my shoulder it was evident what I was doing. I didn’t mention that only a few minutes before this I had serious doubts about her well-being as she walked round in small circles, took a few paces forward and then back, appearing to ignore her dog as she talked loudly, sometimes shouting, waving her arms about and then going through the whole thing again. I assume that the little black thing plugged into her ear was a USB headset and she was talking on the phone to someone, but that was just a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Sunday after the Friends of Baildon Moor and Bradford Ornithological Group walk I decided to go up to look for Whitethroat near the Scout camp. I heard Whitethroat but didn’t manage to see any. However I did hear plenty of Willow Warblers, and eventually, after being quiet for a while, I got sight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}