{"id":4186,"date":"2016-02-25T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2016-02-25T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:32:28","slug":"winter-sun-at-wraysbury-teasels-linnets-bullfinches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/25\/winter-sun-at-wraysbury-teasels-linnets-bullfinches\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Sun at Wraysbury: Teasels, Linnets, Bullfinches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Teasels in Winter Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was cold out today, and I was glad of fleece, warm coat, woolly hat and gloves \u2014 not to mention gumboots through the clogging mud, the worst I’ve seen in many walks at Wraysbury Lakes.<\/p>\n

But when the sun came out, it was beautiful, and I hope I’ve captured a little of that wintry beauty for you (and some of the puddled paths) with this photo of last year’s dried-out Teasels.<\/p>\n

Just as I was about to take the photo, a flash of white from two largish finches caught my eye, and I grabbed my binoculars. Luckily, they landed in a bare thornbush, and showed themselves to be a male and a female Bullfinch, their black caps, red chests and white rumps splendidly visible as they sat a while, occasionally leaning right forwards to peck at the buds. They flew off to another bush, giving me the best views I think I ever had of the male\/female differences at rest and in flight. The male really did glow red.<\/p>\n

Up on the horse hill, a flock of some 50 Goldfinches flickered overhead. A Green Woodpecker called in the distance, as did two Mistle Thrushes, their loud, monotonous, ringing cries carrying across the wet ground. A solitary Redwing was all that was left of the winter flocks. Two streaky brown Linnets flew across.<\/p>\n

A cormorant flapped heavily overhead, quite goose-like in front view but obvious enough in outline as it went by. Down at the nearly birdless lake, 5 Goldeneye\u00a0 brightened up the view, with a few distant Shoveler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was cold out today, and I was glad of fleece, warm coat, woolly hat and gloves \u2014 not to mention gumboots through the clogging mud, the worst I’ve seen in many walks at Wraysbury Lakes. But when the sun came out, it was beautiful, and I hope I’ve captured a little of that wintry … Continue reading Winter Sun at Wraysbury: Teasels, Linnets, Bullfinches<\/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":[706,10,58,565,631,52],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-bullfinch","tag-goldeneye","tag-green-woodpecker","tag-linnet","tag-teasel","tag-wraysbury-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","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=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}