{"id":8234,"date":"2016-11-06T21:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2016-11-06T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T20:56:25","slug":"pink-footed-geese-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8234","title":{"rendered":"Pink-footed geese migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two flocks of pink-footed geese (kortnebbgjess) passed over the house today&#8230;on the way south from the stopover area just north of here&#8230;this morning it was -8C and the same is forecast for the next two nights&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8234-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/000252.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/000252.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/000252.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8235\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680249.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8235 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680249-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"P1680249\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680249-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680249.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beautiful morning, cold at about -8C&#8230;the sun doesn&#8217;t now get very high in the sky and the shadows are long all day long like this Betula pendula (Silver birch) shadow in the field below the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8240\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8240 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680260-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"P1680260\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680260-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680260.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flock of pinkfeet arriving from the north&#8230;they swung round to the west and passed directly over the house. See the video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8239\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680269.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8239 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680269-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1680269\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680269-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680269.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second and largest flock of around 130 birds also passed directly over flying westwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680270.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8238 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680270-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"P1680270\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680270-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680270.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flight speed is impressive and turning round this was the only shot I managed as they disappeared westwards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680248-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1680248\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680248-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680248.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680246-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1680246\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680246-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/P1680246.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two flocks of pink-footed geese (kortnebbgjess) passed over the house today&#8230;on the way south from the stopover area just north of here&#8230;this morning it was -8C and the [&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":[1820,1819],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-kortnebbgjess","tag-pink-footed-geese"],"views":2498,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}