{"id":708,"date":"2008-06-11T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2008\/06\/11\/red-kite\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T23:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:57:00","slug":"red-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Red Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/images\/08061101.jpg\" \/><br \/>I spotted a large hawk over Gainsborough Green in South Abingdon. I remember on the Blue Peter children&#8217;s programme, in years gone by, how they monitored the last pair of breeding Kites on an isolated Scottish Loch. <\/p>\n<p>I said to one lady &#8220;Have you seen that&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She just said &#8220;Oh he&#8217;s often here now&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Red Kites have been re-introduced (for that is what I think it is) and they thrive over the land near Didcot Power Station. They even come scouting over Abingdon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted a large hawk over Gainsborough Green in South Abingdon. I remember on the Blue Peter children&#8217;s programme, in years gone by, how they monitored the last pair of breeding Kites on an isolated Scottish Loch. I said to one lady &#8220;Have you seen that&#8221; She just said &#8220;Oh he&#8217;s often here now&#8221; Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}