{"id":539,"date":"2012-10-10T20:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-10-10T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T21:27:41","slug":"a-seige-of-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/a-seige-of-herons\/","title":{"rendered":"A seige of Herons"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s a new meaning of the word seige for me. I had to look up (using Google of course) the word for a collection of Herons. As usual you can click on the images to see a larger one on Flickr.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago I saw 5 Herons in the field behind Bradford Amateur Rowing Club near the weir at Hirst Wood. Since then I have only ever seen single Herons – until the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Because of the height of the river, towards the end of Sept I decided to go and have a look at the weir at Hirst Wood. The weir at Robert’s Park has been spectacular. The weir at Hirst Wood was equally impressive.<\/p>\n

50 yards up river, on the footpath, I spotted a Grey Heron. I managed to get a few shots of it before it flew off. Then 2 flew out of the trees along the river and then another 3. They flew up the hill on the right.<\/p>\n

A few days later, 3 Oct., I decided to get down there as quickly as possible at lunch-time, looking for Herons again. On the way up there I spotted this duck, which, at the moment I have no idea what kind.<\/p>\n

\"Mmm.<\/a><\/p>\n

The field behind the rowing club appeared to be empty until I saw Herons over near the far wall. It also started raining. What a surprise! (You can take that as me being surprised at seeing the Herons and\/or being sarcy about the weather)<\/p>\n

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

There were 6 in this field but then I noticed more long necks on the other side of the wall making a total of 13 Grey Herons all within a few feet of each other. Wow. This shot is 5 images stitched together.<\/p>\n

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

An angler walking along the river bank seemed to scare them all over on to the other side of the wall.<\/p>\n

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

So that then they were all quite close to each other in the one field. I have never seen a seige of Herons like this before<\/p>\n

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

They then all flew off into the next field behind Bull Coppy Wood or Fell Wood which put them out of sight.<\/p>\n

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

But they were still arriving.<\/p>\n

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

On the way back I stopped off to take a photo of the weir at Hirst Wood. It looks just like thick liquid caramel. Yummy.<\/p>\n

\"Caramel\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s a new meaning of the word seige for me. I had to look up (using Google of course) the word for a collection of Herons. As usual you can click on the images to see a larger one on Flickr. A couple of years ago I saw 5 Herons in the field behind Bradford […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-8H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}