{"id":26637,"date":"2021-01-17T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2021-01-17T17:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:28:52","slug":"lockdown-3-bird-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=26637","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown 3 &#8211; bird watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people we have not been out a lot since lockdown 3 started on January 5th. A surge of Covid-19 cases led to hospital intensive care units becoming full, or near capacity, and so the government put in place this lockdown.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011701.jpg\" alt=\"Lockdown 3\" \/><br \/>\nToday we stayed in, and I waited for visitors to come to us &#8211; for some pictures for the blog. <\/p>\n<p>The birds must have plenty of other food out there because our well stocked bird feeder doesn&#8217;t seem to be getting many visitors this winter. I did see a flurry of sparrows at breakfast and then it was quiet again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011702.jpg\" alt=\"Lockdown 3\" \/><br \/>\nThere have also been lone blue tits that flit in quickly and away again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011704.jpg\" alt=\"Lockdown 3\" \/><br \/>\nA Wood Pigeon landed in one of the trees. Usually the other birds throw so much food about that there is lots on the ground for Wood Pigeons to vacuum up, but not today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011707.jpg\" alt=\"Lockdown 3\" \/><br \/>\nA flock of pigeons circles round one of the houses in St Helen&#8217;s Court.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag21\/21011712.jpg\" alt=\"Lockdown 3\" \/><br \/>\nFlocks of gulls glide over as the sun goes down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many people we have not been out a lot since lockdown 3 started on January 5th. A surge of Covid-19 cases led to hospital intensive care units becoming full, or near capacity, and so the government put in place this lockdown. Today we stayed in, and I waited for visitors to come to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637","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=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}