{"id":1821,"date":"2009-04-15T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/04\/more-from-rye-meads-rspb-reserve\/"},"modified":"2009-04-15T20:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:03:15","slug":"more-from-rye-meads-rspb-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"More from Rye Meads RSPB Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Some more photos of the range of interesting bird life at Rye Meads. See <a href=\"\/atc\/2009\/04\/rye-meads-rspb-reserve.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my previous post<\/a> for the first instalment. There&#39;s still more to come, bit by bit. It took me a while to figure out what all these things were as I&#39;m new to it, so I don&#39;t want to swamp my dear readers (both of you) with too much at once.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>First, a twofer! That&#39;s two for the price of one. At the top a male Gadwall, and at the bottom a Coot collecting lumber for a nest I imagine. I have better pictures of both male and female Gadwalls to come in a later post.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570211c88970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadGadwallCoot 6477\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011570211c88970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570211c88970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>A Greylag Goose (actually a pair of them) flew overhead and I managed to get a half decent shot.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570211eb8970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadGreylagGoose 6480\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e01588834011570211eb8970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e01588834011570211eb8970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>This taxed my powers of identification but I&#39;m now certain that it&#39;s a female Tufted Duck. Comparing it to the male in my previous post it&#39;s quite different, though there is a suggestion of tuftiness still.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401156f2aa746970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadTuftedDuckFemale 6479\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e0158883401156f2aa746970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401156f2aa746970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Finally a Pochard, which on the day I was confusing with Shovellers, but on reflection (picture pun intended) it&#39;s clearly quite different.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401157021212d970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RyeMeadPochard 6481\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e0158883401157021212d970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e0158883401157021212d970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px; \" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more photos of the range of interesting bird life at Rye Meads. See my previous post for the first instalment. There&#39;s still more to come, bit by bit. It took me a while to figure out what all these things were as I&#39;m new to it, so I don&#39;t want to swamp my dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}