{"id":6767,"date":"2018-02-20T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T18:16:11","slug":"pennington-flash-20th-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/02\/pennington-flash-20th-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennington Flash 20th February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Pennington Flash 20th February 2018--><br \/>\nWe got finished with the birding group quite early this day so we decided to go for just an hour to Pennington so we only took in Horrocks Hide , Pengy&#8217;s and the Bunting Hide. It was half-term so the place was heaving and we didn&#8217;t stay long. But we did get some birds while we were there including a KIngfisher<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird Sightings : Horrocks Hide<\/h4>\n<table class=\"blogtable\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Mute Swan<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northern Shoveler<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Pochard<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tufted Duck<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Goldeneye<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Merganser<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Crested Grebe<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Cormorant<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grey Heron<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Moorhen<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Coot<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Oystercatcher<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northern Lapwing<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black-headed Gull<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lesser Black-backed Gull<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Kingfisher<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Magpie<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>European Robin<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Song Thrush<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Bird Sightings : Bunting Hide<\/h4>\n<table class=\"blogtable\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Moorhen<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stock Dove<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Magpie<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Great Tit<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14<\/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\">8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Blackbird<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reed Bunting<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Common Chaffinch<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eurasian Bullfinch<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got finished with the birding group quite early this day so we decided to go for just an hour to Pennington so we only took in Horrocks Hide , Pengy&#8217;s and the Bunting Hide. It was half-term so the place was heaving and we didn&#8217;t stay long. But we did get some birds while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/02\/pennington-flash-20th-february-2018\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-birding-days-out","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767"}],"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=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6768,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}