{"id":7154,"date":"2018-11-25T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2018-11-25T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:37:22","slug":"velvet-scoter-at-high-rid-reservoir-near-bolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/11\/velvet-scoter-at-high-rid-reservoir-near-bolton\/","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Scoter at High Rid Reservoir near Bolton 25th November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Velvet Scoter at High Rid Reservoir near Bolton 25th November 2018--><\/p>\n<p>Anne suggested that we did something the next day, which was a Sunday morning, so I looked at Bird Guides and saw that there had been a Velvet Scoter on High Rid reservoir near Bolton, only about a 20 minute drive away. A quick Google of Pete Hines Youtube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uHmiQyWbVvY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought up a video of the bird<\/a> and so next morning we headed up there. It was a bitterly cold day up there and the wind was arctic. Fortunately we were ont he bird quickly and had good views of it before a combination of her being under the water for long periods and the icy wind sen tus scurrying back to the car, year tick in pocket!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d4817.214393318261!2d-2.5086738714954593!3d53.58760387012115!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x487b09cec8425555%3A0xb784f6316e1ede26!2sHigh+Rid+Reservoir!5e1!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1543163421499\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne suggested that we did something the next day, which was a Sunday morning, so I looked at Bird Guides and saw that there had been a Velvet Scoter on High Rid reservoir near Bolton, only about a 20 minute drive away. A quick Google of Pete Hines Youtube channel brought up a video of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/11\/velvet-scoter-at-high-rid-reservoir-near-bolton\/\">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":[12,8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-birding-days-out","category-year-tick","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154"}],"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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}