{"id":2249,"date":"2014-01-12T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2014-01-12T07:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:27:55","slug":"gazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"Gazing with ganders"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a very successful event last night for DB Astro (link at the side there) with a visit to the dark site afterwards.\u00a0 I did not attend the latter, not feeling too chipper since so far this calendar year I have had two colds and one episode of acute back pain, but hey ho, onwards and upwards!\u00a0 Nothing compared to what some other people are having to face.\u00a0 And if I had known that someone<\/em> was stopping off at the chipper on the way, (groan) I might have pushed myself that bit further.<\/p>\n

There was universal disappointment over the UK when the aurora borealis, forecast on the back of a huge coronal mass ejection, failed to materialise here.\u00a0 But the folk on the Twitters had rare fun speculating about it.\u00a0 One day I will see the fairy dancers but the harsh reality is that their prediction is difficult to say the least.<\/p>\n

And last weekend we saw more birds ! Yes! Can you believe that?\u00a0 The O.C. at Aberdour with a greenshank, which evaded the lens, and some geese, swans and mallards closer up at Craigencault Ecology farm.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The O.C. on Aberdour Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mobbed<\/a>
Mobbed by geese at Craigencault<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mute<\/a>
Mute Swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sooky<\/a>
Sooky mallard*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Geese<\/a>
Geese leaving in disgust since we had no food<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Shelter<\/a>
Shelter made from plastic bottles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Goodbye<\/a>
Goodbye Christmas 2013!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actually, I am not too sure that duck is\u00a0 a mallard, so we’ll just call it a juvenile mallard<\/em> until someone tells me differently . My site, my rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a very successful event last night for DB Astro (link at the side there) with a visit to the dark site afterwards.\u00a0 I did not attend the latter, not feeling too chipper since so far this calendar year I have had two colds and one episode of acute back pain, but hey ho, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-birds-wildlife","category-fife","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}