{"id":1519,"date":"2017-05-08T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-06-26T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:31:33","slug":"birds-prior-to-the-dragons-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/birds-prior-to-the-dragons-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds. Prior to the Dragons on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, before going down to Robert&#8217;s Park to see the Dragon Boat Festival, I went on a short Ingress adventure for Magnus Builder but took my camera with me.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mandarin Ducks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34153015210\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4184\/34153015210_34cf4268df_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mandarin Ducks\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driving along the narrow Esholt Lane I got a quick glimpse of what looked like a Mandaring Duck on the river so I quickly pulled off the road, of sorts, and got my camera out and found a way to see through the bushes. Not one but 3! I have seen Mandarin Duck on\u00a0the canal in the past and very occasionally on the river but never 3 together.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparrows\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34377607832\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4155\/34377607832_0d41cf37e6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sparrows\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also called in Ferniehurst Dell for Ingress and spent some time watching Sparrows dust bathing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparrow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34408447861\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4168\/34408447861_874a199ff4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sparrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one looks as though he has crash landed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparrows\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34153026120\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4160\/34153026120_2f76cb73d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sparrows\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They like stirring it up a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparrows\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/33727901033\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4168\/33727901033_29964324c6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sparrows\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one on the left is a juvenile. You can see it still has the gape around its bill.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Juvenile Sparrows\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/34153019170\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4176\/34153019170_cb3b6b9c6e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Sparrows\" width=\"640\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here it is a bit closer.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to count the Sparrows. At one time there were 12 on the track bathing. 7 or 8 on the wall. 3 or 4 on the fence. 3 on the roof. Song coming from at least 3 places in the hedge. 6 or 7 in the Ivy on the wall behind me. 4 or 5 at the foot of the wall. 5 or 6 on the other side of the wall when I walked round. 7 or 8 on the other side of the track near the fruit trees. So at a conservative estimate there were at least 40 Sparrows. around.<\/p>\n<p>There are also Sparrows at Cliffe Avenue play ground, and in the hedges at Glenaire Primary School.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, before going down to Robert&#8217;s Park to see the Dragon Boat Festival, I went on a short Ingress adventure for Magnus Builder but took my camera with me. Driving along the narrow Esholt Lane I got a quick glimpse of what looked like a Mandaring Duck on the river so I quickly pulled [&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":[6],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul","tag-ingress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-ov","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","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=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}