{"id":8214,"date":"2019-08-08T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:11:17","slug":"little-bustard-mickletown-ings-8th-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/2019\/08\/little-bustard-mickletown-ings-8th-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Bustard Mickletown Ings 8th August 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Bustard Mickleton Ings 190808\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QI5dduv7Y3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Very distant Little Bustard Mickleton Ings 8th August 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Reports of a very uncommon Little Bustard seen near Leeds, combined with a particularly good description of location and parking, encouraged us to drive up there. The sighting was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>male still in field at Mickletown Ings; park carefully on Pinfold Lane (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdguides.com\/map\/redirect\/LS269JS\/\" target=\"_blank\">LS26 9JS<\/a>) and take footpath north immediately east of 35 Lower Mickletown Road to view fields at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdguides.com\/map\/redirect\/53.7398856202823,-1.38899778885279\/\" target=\"_blank\">SE403273<\/a>. Please view only from footpath and do not enter fields  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We pushed our liuck and wen straight to number 35 where we actually found pleanty of parking. As we left the car a birder pointed us down the lane just where we had parked and within a few seconds someone had put us on to the bird. Unfortunately it wasn&#8217;t in the field but down in a hollow between the field and some reeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a bit of a tease but, eventually, we got some acceptable views of the distant bird and some wobbly video. This might be the rarest bird we have seen in the UK so I am looking forward to the write-ups about it. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"A Little Bustard seen at Slimbridge  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wwt.org.uk\/wetland-centres\/slimbridge\/news\/rare-little-bustard-at-slimbridge\/17150\" target=\"_blank\">A Little Bustard seen at Slimbridge <\/a>at the end of July  was said to have been only the 27th visit by Little Bustard to the UK since 1950. So perhaps we have seen the 28th !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/35-Lower-Mickletown.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/35-Lower-Mickletown.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/35-Lower-Mickletown-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/35-Lower-Mickletown-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption>The top of the lane at 35 Mickletown <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Birders-at-Little-Bustard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Birders-at-Little-Bustard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Birders-at-Little-Bustard-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>The viewing area at the end of the lane at 35 Mickletown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ps Pete Hines has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a3f7nPJtxB8\">a much better video<\/a> that was taken a couple of days earlier when the bird was much more in the open field. Another winner for Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-contains-phots","category-life-tick","category-uncategorized","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214"}],"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=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billneil.co.uk\/blogs\/birding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}