{"id":279,"date":"2020-05-11T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofthewild.co.uk\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T10:46:03","slug":"lockdown-diaries-28th-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown diaries 28th April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sign if the kingfisher on my walk today, and I was beginning to worry until I heard the familiar &#8220;peep-purrp&#8221; sound flashing down the river, chasing the bird itself. You don&#8217;t always have to see a kingfisher to know it&#8217;s there. The hand-buzzer rasping of a whitethroat\u00a0 entertained me, as it flew from bramble stand to bramble stand, always keeping fifteen or so feet ahead of me as I walked. And then, joyously, it did a skylark-like display flight, floating up perhaps fifty feet into the sky, trilling its heart out. I hope I don&#8217;t diminish the whitethroat by saying that it is not a patch on the skylark, that evocative angel of summer days, but it was a creditable effort. I rounded my day off with my first view this year of a four-spotetd chaser dragonfly, absolutely pristine, as if it had been freshly cast in pure gold. A beautiful end to a shorter than usual walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sign if the kingfisher on my walk today, and I was beginning to worry until I heard the familiar &#8220;peep-purrp&#8221; sound flashing down the river, chasing the bird itself. You don&#8217;t always have to see a kingfisher to know it&#8217;s there. The hand-buzzer rasping of a whitethroat\u00a0 entertained me, as it flew from bramble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevedeeley.bunchadon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}