{"id":6039,"date":"2016-08-31T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2016-09-04T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T13:29:20","slug":"wwt-slimbridge-31st-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2016\/08\/wwt-slimbridge-31st-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WWT Slimbridge 31st August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>WWT Slimbridge 31st August 2016<\/h3>\n<p>We had a long drive ahead of us up to Manchester and it turned out to be bir arduous and our worst trtaffic of the holiday despite most of it being over a bank holiday and our return day being a normal day. Still we thought we had time for a quick couple of hours at Slimbridge before heading home. Whilst we did not see anything particularly wonderful, a quick vivit gave us a good number of waders including Green and Common Sandpipers, Ruff and Snipe.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were the usual large numbers of Barnacle and Greylag Geese as well as Mallard, Shoveler, Teal, Tufted Duck, Great Crested Grebe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird Sightings : WWT Slimbridge<\/h4>\n<table class=\"blogtable\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"210\">Species<\/th>\n<th width=\"30\">Count<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black-headed Gull<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black-tailed Godwit<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Carrion Crow<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Sandpiper<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Tern<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Coot<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cormorant<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Crane<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Curlew<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gadwall<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Black-backed Gull<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Crested Grebe<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Green Sandpiper<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grey Heron<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Greylag Goose<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hobby<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>House Sparrow<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jackdaw<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kestrel<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lapwing<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Little Egret<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Little Grebe<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mallard<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mute Swan<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Robin<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rook<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shelduck<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Swallow<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Teal<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tufted Duck<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wigeon<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Woodpigeon<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWT Slimbridge 31st August 2016 We had a long drive ahead of us up to Manchester and it turned out to be bir arduous and our worst trtaffic of the holiday despite most of it being over a bank holiday and our return day being a normal day. Still we thought we had time for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2016\/08\/wwt-slimbridge-31st-august-2016\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-birding-days-out","category-birding-on-holiday","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}