{"id":1437,"date":"2017-04-10T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2017-04-10T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:19:15","slug":"chiffchaff-on-thompson-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/chiffchaff-on-thompson-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiffchaff on Thompson Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been carrying my camera around with me much over the last year. Today I took it to work with me.<\/p>\n<p>When walking back to my car in the evening I spotted a few Sparrows flitting about and unpacked my camera. I didn&#8217;t get close to any Sparrows but I did stop, listen and watch a Chiffchaff for a few minutes. There were 2 of them that looked like they might be a pair.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, as usual, spent most of its time on the telephone wires or near the top of trees calling out its Chiff Chaff. I dialled in some over exposure and took some shots but then they flitted about the Hawthorn and dropped into the grass letting me get a decent view, and photo, of it. I know I watched the bird from tree down to the grass but the ID is confirmed by the dark legs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/33829117851\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Chiffchaff\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2834\/33829117851_be831ee2c7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Chiffchaff\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As usual you can click on the image to see it larger on Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been carrying my camera around with me much over the last year. Today I took it to work with me. When walking back to my car in the evening I spotted a few Sparrows flitting about and unpacked my camera. I didn&#8217;t get close to any Sparrows but I did stop, listen [&hellip;]<\/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-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","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=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}