{"id":26341,"date":"2020-11-23T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26341"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:59:11","slug":"bird-watch-sunset-at-radley-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26341","title":{"rendered":"Bird watch sunset at Radley Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112315.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nI went for a walk and reached Thrupp Lake (one of the Radley Lakes) at about 3:30 pm. Going in by a gate next to the cycle track I found the path got very muddy at first.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112302.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nInstead of doing the usual full circuit I stayed on one bank and gazed across the water.<\/p>\n<p>At first all the birds seemed a long way away.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112303.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nIn the trees of the central islands some large birds (Cormorants?) were already roosting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112306.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nFlocks of smaller birds flew around, landing in the high branches above the large birds and then taking off again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112319.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nNearer at hand, some ducks drifted by.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112308.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nA Grebe kept diving and reappearing. There were also coots diving but they did not travel such long distances underwater.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112324.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nThe sun set behind me and a young swan came up very close. It must be familiar with humans as a source of food and waited in front of me for a little while before drifting away.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112330a.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nIt went on to join another young swan dipping the lake for vegetation.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/2020112309.jpg\" alt=\"Radley Lakes\" \/><br \/>\nAs the light faded, the moon became clearer. I retraced by steps back across the mud and back on the cycle path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went for a walk and reached Thrupp Lake (one of the Radley Lakes) at about 3:30 pm. Going in by a gate next to the cycle track I found the path got very muddy at first. Instead of doing the usual full circuit I stayed on one bank and gazed across the water. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341","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=26341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}