{"id":1859,"date":"2024-08-05T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T10:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:26:01","slug":"august-2024-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"AUGUST 2024 &#8211; SIGHTINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>01\/08\/2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Great Skua (good to see two together &#8211; we&#8217;ve generally only seen singles this year since they were hit by bird flu)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greenshank (a brief sighting of a bird passing through Loch Eatharna)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Bog Orchid<\/strong> (four clusters of up to six specimens each of this delightful miniature wonder. Only our second contact with it here on Coll)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and then circumstances dictated that we temporarily leave Coll for sunnier climes further south. We&#8217;ll be paying regular visits back to Coll over the next couple of years and will keep the website ticking over in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/08\/2024 &#8230;and then circumstances dictated that we temporarily leave Coll for sunnier climes further south. We&#8217;ll be paying regular visits back to Coll over the next couple of years and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[77,79,8,9],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-sightings-2024","tag-77","tag-august","tag-recent","tag-sightings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsmiths.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}