{"id":8022,"date":"2022-01-12T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:51:59","slug":"winter-mist-at-wraysbury-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/12\/winter-mist-at-wraysbury-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter mist at wraysbury lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Morning sun through the mist over the Colne Brook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Goldeneyes, winter ducks here, down from the far north where they breed. The two black-and-white males in the centre are bobbing their heads (and throwing them over their backs, not shown), a small echo of their courtship display. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Among the wonderful moments on this walk: a heron gave its cronking call and flapped slow over the water; a plane passed behind three cormorants drying their wings, perched on the branches of a dead tree; a group of goldeneyes panicked and pattered across the lake, gaining speed for takeoff, giving their high-pitched call, the waves sparkling in the slanting sunshine; a song thrush tentatively singing its repeated music; a solitary fieldfare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teasels and wet thornbushes glistening in the low sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Among the wonderful moments on this walk: a heron gave its cronking call and flapped slow over the water; a plane passed behind three cormorants drying their wings, perched on the branches of a dead tree; a group of goldeneyes panicked and pattered across the lake, gaining speed for takeoff, giving their high-pitched call, the … Continue reading Winter mist at wraysbury lakes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,239,90,1588],"tags":[49,627,10,66,970,631,52],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-love-of-nature","category-natural-history","category-walks","tag-cormorant","tag-fieldfare","tag-goldeneye","tag-heron","tag-mist","tag-teasel","tag-wraysbury-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}