{"id":2105,"date":"2015-05-18T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2015-05-18T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T13:41:02","slug":"blackbird-catching-newts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"Blackbird catching newts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday 16 May this female blackbird caught five smooth newts in our garden pond. She either waits in the centre of the pond, perching on the blanket of duckweed, or stalks along the edge. As soon as she catches one she takes it to a grassy spot or to the raised bed behind the pond and dispatches it then eats it herself. We\u2019ve never seen her taking one away to feed her young. We had already spotted her doing this a few times during the week but now that she\u2019s become so adept I\u2019ve now raked away the duckweed to give the newts a chance of survival.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2106\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2106\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2106\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2106\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2106\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKBIRD001.jpg\" alt=\"blackbird catching newts\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKBIRD001.jpg 650w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKBIRD001-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKBIRD001-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">blackbird catching newts<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2107\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2107\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2107\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2107\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2107\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKBIRD002.jpg\" alt=\"blackbird catching newts\" width=\"334\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">blackbird catching newts (sketch by Richard Bell)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 16 May this female blackbird caught five smooth newts in our garden pond. She either waits in the centre of the pond, perching on the blanket of duckweed, or stalks along the edge. As soon as she catches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[181],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}