{"id":4569,"date":"2025-07-11T14:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:04:31","slug":"wetland-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2025\/07\/11\/wetland-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetland in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to a local wetland on a day one would not think suitable for photography, fully overcast with light rain, and eleven degrees with the apparent temperature only four degrees, turned out to be well worth while. The current pelican population was to a bird completely immobile, with their heads tucked under their wings, and remained so for the duration of the visit. Click all images to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g001b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g002b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g003b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g004b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g005b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g006b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g007b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of Lapwings were standing guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g008b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on the island White ibis were sheltering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix36\/g009b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to a local wetland on a day one would not think suitable for photography, fully overcast with light rain, and eleven degrees with the apparent temperature only four degrees, turned out to be well worth while. The current pelican population was to a bird completely immobile, with their heads tucked under their wings, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2025\/07\/11\/wetland-in-winter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wetland in Winter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","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=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}