{"id":10655,"date":"2014-01-25T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T16:37:26","slug":"bird-watch-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=10655","title":{"rendered":"Bird Watch Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3S63lkpWI-8\/UuPbXTByGUI\/AAAAAAAAQgU\/SGranzwtHdc\/s1600\/1401205.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3S63lkpWI-8\/UuPbXTByGUI\/AAAAAAAAQgU\/SGranzwtHdc\/s1600\/1401205.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe RSBP are inviting people to spend an hour watching and counting birds in the garden, or a green space nearby &#8211; as part of a national survey. There are very few birds in our garden &#8211; the neighborhood cats make sure of that.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rcqz93Kg43w\/UuPb5syO1nI\/AAAAAAAAQgc\/KlPS9gwW4ks\/s1600\/1401206.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rcqz93Kg43w\/UuPb5syO1nI\/AAAAAAAAQgc\/KlPS9gwW4ks\/s1600\/1401206.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn search of a green space, I met a dozen or so members of the Green Gym who were litter picking along the Ock Valley walk. The walk is still shut but they had arranged access with the Town Council.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gSxwhsLXo4g\/UuPeBoqhaSI\/AAAAAAAAQgk\/i-vCScgyOPo\/s1600\/1401203.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gSxwhsLXo4g\/UuPeBoqhaSI\/AAAAAAAAQgk\/i-vCScgyOPo\/s1600\/1401203.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe most frequent birds were tits.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-duaRYJi4S9g\/UuPfGH1uk9I\/AAAAAAAAQgs\/ZoVfROvtEPQ\/s1600\/1401214.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-duaRYJi4S9g\/UuPfGH1uk9I\/AAAAAAAAQgs\/ZoVfROvtEPQ\/s1600\/1401214.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen there were blackbirds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cHGHmLpcLKQ\/UuPfds-gmWI\/AAAAAAAAQg0\/tTb2GprH4hQ\/s1600\/1401212.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cHGHmLpcLKQ\/UuPfds-gmWI\/AAAAAAAAQg0\/tTb2GprH4hQ\/s1600\/1401212.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd robins. These pictured birds have probably got used to being fed near the bench where I sat &#8211; they came so close. Other birds stayed further away: crows, magpies, ducks, pigeons, and probably more unusual species I didn&#8217;t spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSBP are inviting people to spend an hour watching and counting birds in the garden, or a green space nearby &#8211; as part of a national survey. There are very few birds in our garden &#8211; the neighborhood cats make sure of that. In search of a green space, I met a dozen or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}