{"id":7701,"date":"2022-12-30T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:01:09","slug":"denso-nature-reserve-after-christmas-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/denso-nature-reserve-after-christmas-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Denso Nature Reserve after Christmas II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had another walk around Denso Marston Nature Reserve on Thursday 29th. This time I didn’t spot any Kingfishers which is unusual but after taking a photo of the Crow with its nictitating membrane over over its eye I spotted a Cormorant flying along the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual click on an image to see it in the gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Juv Sparrowhawk at Denso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Juv Sparrowhawk at Denso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunnock at Denso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Heron at Denso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fungi at Denso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While I was on one of the paths on the far side of the ponds looking for Redwing I saw a speckled bird that looked like a very big Mistle Thrush. It flew over the path and landed in a nearby tree. Of course it was hidden from view so I carefully manoeuvred myself until I could see. Wow! What a surprise. With a beak like that it certainly wasn’t a Thrush. Its bright eye was also a giveaway. With its brown colouring and speckled chest rather than bars I guess it is a Juvenile Sparrohawk. After a minute or so it swept down through the trees and I quietly went back to the main path looking for it amongst the trees as I went up river. I didn’t spot it again and when I got to the feeding station the Dunnocks, Robins, Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits and Rats didn’t seem any more wary than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just before heading home another walk by the pond revealed a Grey Heron with a very flexible neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have submitted the photo of the fungus to iSpot Nature<\/a> in the hope of an ID. If anyone has an idea please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had another walk around Denso Marston Nature Reserve on Thursday 29th. This time I didn’t spot any Kingfishers which is unusual but after taking a photo of the Crow with its nictitating membrane over over its eye I spotted a Cormorant flying along the river. As usual click on an image to see it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7708,"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":"Juv Sparrowhawk at Denso Marston","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":[18,145,119],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denso","category-paul","tag-denso-marston-nature-reserve","tag-grey-heron","tag-sparrowhawk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/R7_C2532.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-20d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701","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=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}