{"id":2497,"date":"2014-11-29T16:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2014-11-29T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T16:56:51","slug":"winter-flocks-at-wraysbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/winter-flocks-at-wraysbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Flocks at Wraysbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Backlit<\/a>
Backlit Teasels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, right at the end of November, autumn is starting to look something like winter. Even now, and even with a light easterly wind, it is mild, almost too warm for any sort of winter coat.<\/p>\n

\"Pochard,<\/a>
Pochard, here for the winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But winter flocks of birds have at last arrived: 45 Pochard on the lake, handsome with their reddish heads contrasting with pale grey backs; dozens of Goldfinch in the nearly leafless trees, twittering ceaselessly; a dozen or more Fieldfare in the thorn bushes in the horse field; a few Redwing in another thorn bush.<\/p>\n

\"Redwings\"<\/a>
My first flock of Redwing this winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The low sun made the dried flowerheads of the Teasels beautiful. A single Pleated Inkcap gleamed among the short grass and muddy hoofprints.<\/p>\n

\"Pleated<\/a>
Pleated Inkcap, Coprinus plicatilis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, right at the end of November, autumn is starting to look something like winter. Even now, and even with a light easterly wind, it is mild, almost too warm for any sort of winter coat. But winter flocks of birds have at last arrived: 45 Pochard on the lake, handsome with their reddish heads … Continue reading Winter Flocks at Wraysbury<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[630,627,382,156,629,53,628,631,52],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-coprinus-plicatilis","tag-fieldfare","tag-goldfinch","tag-jackdaw","tag-pleated-inkcap","tag-pochard","tag-redwing","tag-teasel","tag-wraysbury-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}