{"id":5721,"date":"2012-01-29T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2012-01-29T01:01:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:01:50","slug":"garden-bird-survey-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5721","title":{"rendered":"Lots of birds tweeting in Abingdon this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the RSPB are asking people to count birds in their gardens as part of a national survey. The winter has been mild so far.\u00a0 I have read newspaper reports suggesting that as a result birds have not needed to come to gardens for emergency food and that could skew the RSPB survey results.\u00a0 There are lots of\u00a0 birds about in Abingdon, but not many come to our garden, but then we have a cat, and so don&#8217;t feed them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120129110.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Bird Survey\" \/><br \/>\nNone of these birds were seen in our garden. The chaffinch was near the River Ock.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120129111.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Bird Survey\" \/><br \/>\nA blackbird was nearby.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120129100.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Bird Survey\" \/><br \/>\nTwo magpies in the Abbey Gardens.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120129108.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Bird Survey\" \/><br \/>\nRobins are to be heard at regular intervals along the Ock Valley Walk and the Abbey Mill Stream.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/120129112.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Bird Survey\" \/><br \/>\nThis Kingfisher did not stop long enough for me to get a clear shot but it did rest for a moment by the River Ock before speeding low along the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend the RSPB are asking people to count birds in their gardens as part of a national survey. The winter has been mild so far.\u00a0 I have read newspaper reports suggesting that as a result birds have not needed to come to gardens for emergency food and that could skew the RSPB survey results.\u00a0 [&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-5721","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\/5721","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=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}