{"id":7174,"date":"2018-12-31T22:42:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:41:54","slug":"december-2018-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/12\/december-2018-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2018 : Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018 : Summary<\/p>\n<p>UK Species Year List to December: 173<br \/>\nTotal UK Species in December: 66<br \/>\nNew &#8220;Year Ticks&#8221; in December: 2<br \/>\nNew &#8220;Life Ticks&#8221; in December: 0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Year ticks in December<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Great Northern Diver at West Kirby Marine Lake on 2 December 2018<\/li>\n<li>Barn Owl at WWT Martin Mere 4 December 2018<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Life ticks in December<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Summary<\/h4>\n<p>A trip up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/12\/great-northern-diver-at-west-kirby-2nd-december-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Wrral on the 2nd of December<\/a> was particulaly fine because it got us a year tick Great Northern Diver at West Kirby Marine Lake but we also had good birds at Parkgate and Burton Mere Wetlands and a couple of days later, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/12\/birding-group-visit-to-wwt-martin-mere-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birding group visit to WWT Martin Mere we also got a year tick Barn Owl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the month was given over to winter colds and other ill-health, poor weather and Christmas preparations. We did manage one last blast to the Wirral on the 30th and a nice day if not too fruitful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018 : Summary UK Species Year List to December: 173 Total UK Species in December: 66 New &#8220;Year Ticks&#8221; in December: 2 New &#8220;Life Ticks&#8221; in December: 0<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2018\/12\/december-2018-summary\/\">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":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-monthly-summary","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174"}],"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=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7192,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}