{"id":334,"date":"2017-01-26T02:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=334"},"modified":"2017-01-26T02:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T02:50:43","slug":"return-of-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2017\/01\/26\/return-of-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Birds."},"content":{"rendered":"

All summer the garden has been bereft of smaller native birds, but suddenly things have changed. A sizable flock of New Holland Honeyeaters has descended on the grevilleas,with an Eastern Spinebill also making an appearance. A flock of eight Superb Fairy-wrens works through the lower shrubbery several times a day, while Brown and Yellow Thornbills have been fossicking through the higher foliage. Yellow-rumped Thornbills are also back in numbers, getting their sustenance from the dry open grassy areas. It’s good to get have them back.<\/p>\n

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Also good to see, a pleasing number of Latham’s Snipe in the local Macalister Wetland Reserve, where yesterday they were successfully recorded by a visiting Japanese TV film crew. The drying wetland is also supporting a large number of Masked Lapwings, Yellow Spoonbills including an adult with two dependent young, and Australian Spotted Crakes, as well as the usual swamphens, moorhens and duck species.<\/p>\n

Click pictures to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All summer the garden has been bereft of smaller native birds, but suddenly things have changed. A sizable flock of New Holland Honeyeaters has descended on the grevilleas,with an Eastern Spinebill also making an appearance. A flock of eight Superb Fairy-wrens works through the lower shrubbery several times a day, while Brown and Yellow Thornbills … Continue reading Return of the Birds.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}