{"id":3460,"date":"2016-11-14T07:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2016-11-14T07:59:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T07:59:49","slug":"serendippity-doo-dah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"Serendippity doo dah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect many people went out for a walk this weekend just to reassure themselves about many things.\u00a0 I know we did.\u00a0 The path from Vane Farm to Ballingry is short but intense.\u00a0 Tackled as it was in thick cloud, we didn&#8217;t expect to see much from the top at all but we could view the Carden flood and most of Loch Leven,\u00a0 Scotlandwell and its hills were lost and the knoll south of Vane Hill receded in the mist as we watched.\u00a0 However, to cheer us on there were red squirrels at the feeders.\u00a0 And when we went back down for a cup of tea (the one at the top out of the Thermos didn&#8217;t count) great was the rejoicing at the positive ID of a white tailed sea eagle, back in town for the winter.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul managed to capture\u00a0 a grainy silhouette with his new lens, in the last minutes of what passed for daylight.\u00a0 Always worth a visit, and you bump up against some seriously knowledgeable people, most of whom are happy to share what they know or have spotted.<\/p>\n<p>There were still some patches of autumn colour, the larches in particular laying that punky yellow carpet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3461\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PB130023-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Larch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3462\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3462\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3462\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PB130027-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Looks flat. Isn't. \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks flat. Isn&#8217;t.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3463\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?attachment_id=3463\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3463\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PB130031-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Trust me, there is an eagle in here. \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trust me, there is an eagle in here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect many people went out for a walk this weekend just to reassure themselves about many things.\u00a0 I know we did.\u00a0 The path from Vane Farm to Ballingry is short but intense.\u00a0 Tackled as it was in thick cloud, we didn&#8217;t expect to see much from the top at all but we could view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-travel","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}