{"id":4735,"date":"2026-03-11T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:41:01","slug":"lake-guyatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/03\/11\/lake-guyatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Guyatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This small man-made wetland in Sale was once a tip, but is now a haven for waterbirds. For some time it has been holding a very large number of White and Straw-necked Ibis, but on a recent visit they had thinned out, having flown out to feed in farming country. Their place had been taken to a certain extent by Cattle Egrets, roosting in the trees on the island as well as paddling in the shallow water. The bills of quite a few are still showing a little remaining breeding colour.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/guyatt2\/egret2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normally having a yellow bill, according to Morcombe ten percent fledge with a grey bill.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/guyatt2\/egret1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"779\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of Lapwings were having a conference, the stilt was not interested.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/guyatt2\/lapwings.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And an Ibis was thinking about its next move from a lofty vantage point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/guyatt2\/ibis.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"697\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small man-made wetland in Sale was once a tip, but is now a haven for waterbirds. For some time it has been holding a very large number of White and Straw-necked Ibis, but on a recent visit they had thinned out, having flown out to feed in farming country. Their place had been taken &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/03\/11\/lake-guyatt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lake Guyatt<\/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-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","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=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}