{"id":10606,"date":"2024-10-28T14:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:12:01","slug":"denso-marston-end-of-oct-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/denso-marston-end-of-oct-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Denso Marston, end of Oct 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another couple of hours down by the river Aire at and around Denso Marston Nature Reserve. Tap on an image, not the caption, to see it better quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fungi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goosander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goosander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was good to get some close sightings of Kingfisher again.The header image shows a Kingfisher catching the sun and behind it is quite dark. Even though I kept looking over in that direction it wasn’t until I heard a splash that I would see the Kingfisher come up out of the water and perch were I could see it. I used my binoculars a few times to look for fish in the water but couldn’t see any, perhaps they preferred to be in the dark under the branches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was surprised to see a Swan on the river. I know they do swim on rivers but seldom on this bit of the river Aire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the far side of the small pond a Grey Heron was feeding on small fish. This one caught 2 in one strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many male ducks go into eclipse plummage after the breeding season and look the similar to the females, they are also flightless. I had read that male Goosander do something different, they fly off after the breeding season. I am therefore curious as to what is happening with this Goosander. Is it a juvenile starting to get its male plumage or is it a male coming out of eclipse. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decent Kingfisher views down by the river along with Swan, Heron, Goosander etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,4],"tags":[18,145,137,179,42,99],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denso","category-paul","tag-denso-marston-nature-reserve","tag-grey-heron","tag-kingfisher","tag-nature-reserve","tag-river-aire","tag-swan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/R7_C7324.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-2L4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","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=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}