{"id":1373,"date":"2012-01-28T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-01-28T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T17:11:59","slug":"birdwatch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatch day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the RSPB asks people to watch the birds in their garden  for an hour over the last weekend in January.\u00a0 My 2012 count was an  improvement on last year:<\/p>\n<p>Four blackbirds<\/p>\n<p>Eight sparrows (might have been more but they move so fast I couldn&#8217;t count them)<\/p>\n<p>Two blue tits<\/p>\n<p>Two coal tits<\/p>\n<p>Two chaffinches<\/p>\n<p>The robin<\/p>\n<p>The rules did not allow me count the gulls and crows overhead, the  oystercatchers and curlews on the football pitch nearby, the wood  pigeons on my neighbour&#8217;s roof or the skein of geese I saw flying over  Asda.\u00a0 And who am I to offer skewed\u00a0 data?\u00a0\u00a0 Nor was I allowed to  include the impressive tally of seven longtailed tits I saw last week. \u00a0  The rules also state that the tally must be the highest number of birds  seen at any one time in the hour, so the fact that the robin bounced  back and forth from some other birdy food mother lode (the tart) did not  allow me to list him\/her as a multiple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1371\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1371\" title=\"The Robin.  In no way a confrontational bird\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010033-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Robin. In no way a confrontational bird\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Robin.  In no way a confrontational bird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1370\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1370\" title=\"House sparrow\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010013-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"House sparrow\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1369\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1369\" title=\"Male blackbird\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/P1010001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Male blackbird\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year the RSPB asks people to watch the birds in their garden for an hour over the last weekend in January.\u00a0 My 2012 count was an improvement on last year: Four blackbirds Eight sparrows (might have been more but they move so fast I couldn&#8217;t count them) Two blue tits Two coal tits Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}