{"id":650,"date":"2012-11-03T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-11-04T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T14:09:38","slug":"winter-bramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/winter-bramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Bramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two winters ago we had loads of Bramblings in our garden. Last winter I did not see one. But this morning there is one on our feeder. I wonder if we will get the numbers that we had before?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one on the feeder with a Goldfinch<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brambling &amp; Goldfinch, our garden by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8150087808\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8471\/8150087808_a0593b83a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Brambling &amp; Goldfinch, our garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on its own<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brambling, our garden by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8150060851\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8046\/8150060851_6ae0d53092_z.jpg\" alt=\"Brambling, our garden\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still birdie related &#8211; I have seen these ducks on the canal for months now and just thought of them as escapees from someone&#8217;s &#8220;stock&#8221;. However I bumped in to Paul King of BOG and we started to wonder what variety they were. So I am uploading photos of them so experts can ID them for me. According to folk on iSpot this is a Domestic duck descended from the Mallard and has the same name (Anas platyrhynchos) <em>&#8220;I think this is what they call the Crested Pekin Duck which originates from the Mallard and shares the scientific name.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Escaped ducks by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8150088978\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8187\/8150088978_b356ce8767_z.jpg\" alt=\"Escaped ducks\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and these? The first suggestion for ID from iSpot is<em> Mallard x Domestic Duck (Anas platyrhynchos) (The domestic duck is descended from the Mallard &#8211; Anas platyrhynchos=Mallard)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Escaped ducks by Paul Marfell, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/8150062475\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8328\/8150062475_0934794ddd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Escaped ducks\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two winters ago we had loads of Bramblings in our garden. Last winter I did not see one. But this morning there is one on our feeder. I wonder if we will get the numbers that we had before? Here&#8217;s one on the feeder with a Goldfinch And on its own Still birdie related &#8211; [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-au","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}