{"id":1580,"date":"2023-01-05T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.171.192.198\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:27:00","slug":"january-2023-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"January 2023 &#8211; Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>19\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x28)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>18\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x32) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>16\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Little Auk <\/strong>(found on roadside, unable to fly. Returned to take his chances by the sea.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mute Swan (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teal (x14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moorhen (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White-tailed Eagle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gannet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ringed Plover (x65)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanderling (x32)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turnstone (x4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dunlin (x1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oystercatcher (x30)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raven (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hooded Crow (x4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rock Pipit (x5)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common Seal (x28)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>13\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Agonopterix yeatiana <\/em>(a micro moth hibernating in our thatched roof)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>8\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jackdaw<\/strong> (a single immature bird on the roadside &#8211; a Coll rarity)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>6\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great Northern Diver (x4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kittiwake (juv)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cormorant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moorhen (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teal (x16)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>4\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Red-throated Diver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Northern Diver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x21)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barnacle Geese (flocks of 400, 90, 65 and 2!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peregrine (a pair at a traditional site)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turnstone (x1)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sanderling (x2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fieldfare (flocks of 10 and 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (flocks of 54 and 28)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sparrowhawk (an adult male bird hunting)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goldcrest (x3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>1\/1\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great Northern Diver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-throated Diver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mute Swan (2 still on our local loch) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greenland White-fronted Geese (x25) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Woodcock (x3 flushed from a moorland gully)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meadow Pipits (a scarce winter species here)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twite (2 flocks of 15 and 20 birds)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Common Cottongrass (an unseasonal flowering specimen)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19\/1\/23 18\/1\/23 16\/1\/23 13\/1\/23 8\/1\/23 6\/1\/23 4\/1\/23 2\/1\/23 1\/1\/23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-sightings-2023"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}