{"id":2955,"date":"2017-03-17T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2017-03-18T05:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T05:48:45","slug":"woodcock-casualty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"Woodcock Casualty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I very occasionally see woodcock flying at Ackworth at dusk but I don&#8217;t usually get a good look at one. This week, students in the junior school found this bird lying dead after\u00a0it had\u00a0flown into a window.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2956\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2956\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2956 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-2-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-2-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-2-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-2-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the daytime, woodcocks sit motionless on the ground and their plumage makes them perfectly camouflaged amongst dried leaves and twigs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2957\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-3-600-x-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-3-600-x-400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-3-600-x-400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Woodcock-3-600-x-400-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woodcocks are native to the UK but most of the birds present during the winter months have arrived for the winter from Scandinavia or northern Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I very occasionally see woodcock flying at Ackworth at dusk but I don&#8217;t usually get a good look at one. This week, students in the junior school found this bird lying dead after\u00a0it had\u00a0flown into a window. During the daytime, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[86,341,339],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}