{"id":4410,"date":"2016-03-31T04:31:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T04:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2016-03-31T08:33:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T08:33:57","slug":"waiting-for-warblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/waiting-for-warblers\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Proverbs: Waiting for Warblers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cormorant<\/a>
Cormorant perched by river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Cast ne’er a clout till May be out”<\/em>, runs an old proverb. I guess it means, don’t trust the appearance of spring and sunshine in March or April: I recall two other spring proverbs, “March winds, April showers”<\/em>, and “One Swallow doesn’t make a Summer”<\/em>. In other words, spring arrives in fits and starts.<\/p>\n

Well, it felt almost like spring at Wraysbury Lakes, with bursts of bright sunshine. A rather bold Cormorant investigated the fish in the river from a low perch. Many Willows have fallen and been cut down: they grow very rapidly, soon become hollow or outgrow their roots in the soft ground, and snap in a storm or topple \u2014 across the path, or into the water.<\/p>\n

A Cetti’s Warbler gave me a single burst of its loud song from a waterside bush: as usual it was invisible.<\/p>\n

Three or four Chiffchaffs chorused uncertainly. There were no other warblers to be heard. Perhaps I’ll get a Six Warbler Walk in a few weeks’ time. The early songsters remain the Song Thrush, the Great Tit and of course that 12-month, 24-hour standby, the Robin.<\/p>\n

A Magpie chattered on the woodland edge of Horse Hill: a big brown Buzzard flapped slowly away from the annoyance to perch in a tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Cast ne’er a clout till May be out”, runs an old proverb. I guess it means, don’t trust the appearance of spring and sunshine in March or April: I recall two other spring proverbs, “March winds, April showers”, and “One Swallow doesn’t make a Summer”. In other words, spring arrives in fits and starts. Well, … Continue reading Spring Proverbs: Waiting for Warblers<\/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":[239],"tags":[12,47,59,49,994,52],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-of-nature","tag-buzzard","tag-cettis-warbler","tag-chiffchaff","tag-cormorant","tag-proverb","tag-wraysbury-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","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=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}