{"id":23259,"date":"2019-08-27T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23259"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:27:32","slug":"close-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=23259","title":{"rendered":"Close encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of close encounters with birds the last couple of days:<br \/>\n1) My local robin (r\u00f8dstrupe) has been getting braver and braver over the last week and yesterday came and joined me and even sang to me&#8230;this is the robin&#8217;s sub-song, much more subdued than the main song:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-23259-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_subsong.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_subsong.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_subsong.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and it had something caught around one of its feet&#8230;I thought initially it was plastic, but it looks natural, so it will hopefully free itself. Perhaps it was asking for help? :)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-23259-2\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_entangled.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_entangled.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robin_entangled.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180431.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180431-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180431-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) I noticed this feral pigeon (bydue) on the driveway picking up seeds (birch?). I&#8217;ve never seen a feral pigeon before in the garden and I&#8217;ve never even see the common woodpigeons (ringduer), that breed in the garden, on the driveway. The only time I&#8217;ve seen a pigeon\/dove before on the driveway was a probable rare Mongolian Turtle Dove a couple of years ago in winter. I started filming and to my suprise it walked towards me and passed very close and continued towards the house. This behaviour wouldn&#8217;t be unusual in the city centre, but it still took me by surprise.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-23259-3\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralDove.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralDove.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralDove.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I went indoors and watched it feeding outside the kitchen&#8230;.and then suddenly there was a commotion in the living room. It had walked into the house and tried to fly through the window glass and was stunned hung upside down amongst the Begonias! I managed to grab hold of it and it flew off&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-23259-4\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralPigeonindoors.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralPigeonindoors.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FeralPigeonindoors.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and sat on the outhouse roof before disappearing!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180473.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180473-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1180473-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1880185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1880185.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1880185-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/P1880185-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of close encounters with birds the last couple of days: 1) My local robin (r\u00f8dstrupe) has been getting braver and braver over the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3634,2437,3633,2438],"class_list":["post-23259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-bydue","tag-european-robin","tag-feral-pigeon","tag-rodstrupe"],"views":1956,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23307,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259\/revisions\/23307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}