{"id":6140,"date":"2016-10-14T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2016-10-19T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:40:06","slug":"highland-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2016\/10\/highland-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlands Day 1\u00a0: 14th October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Highlands Day 1 : 14th October 2016<\/h3>\n<p>John Poyner, my guide \u00a0for the weekend, picked me up from the airport and drove me to the hotel at Grantown-on-Spey. \u00a0After checking in and unpacking, I decided to go for a walk in the Anagach Woods nearby. I was hoping for Crested \u00a0Tits but I didn&#8217;t have any luck in that department though I was reasonably sure that I heard one. In any case I only got a few Long-tailed Tits and some other common woodland birds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I walked further through the woods than we had done before, \u00a0eventually getting to the main road where I turned left and walked down to the old \u00a0Spey Bridge. Here I got the customary Dipper and Grey Wagtail.<\/p>\n<p>I got hopelessly lost in the woods on the way back but eventually got back home after a four hour plus walk. As I was coming into the town large flocks of Jackdaws, Starlings and Woodpigeons were flying around starting to settle down for the day.<\/p>\n<p>I got back feeling a little whacked but I regard it as warming up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1P_BblSSqgx2RGBzXdhRpIgDy90o\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird Sightings : Anagach Forest<\/h4>\n<table class=\"blogtable\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Coal Tit<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Blue Tit<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Long-tailed Tit<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>European Robin<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Blackbird<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Starling<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Chaffinch<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird Sightings : Old Spey Bridge<\/h4>\n<table class=\"blogtable\" border=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Mallard<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Jackdaw<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White-throated Dipper<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>European Robin<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grey Wagtail<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlands Day 1 : 14th October 2016 John Poyner, my guide \u00a0for the weekend, picked me up from the airport and drove me to the hotel at Grantown-on-Spey. \u00a0After checking in and unpacking, I decided to go for a walk in the Anagach Woods nearby. I was hoping for Crested \u00a0Tits but I didn&#8217;t have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2016\/10\/highland-day-1\/\">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":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-birding-on-holiday","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140"}],"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=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}