{"id":79,"date":"2012-02-05T21:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-02-05T21:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:36:32","slug":"duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Duck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week or so there&#8217;s been a flurry of excitement from local twitchers regarding a duck. I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m anything like an expert on birdlife or fauna, but it&#8217;s nice to see the area getting some attention for something positive.<\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 2.0.39 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:5px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.2.0.39 Content AdSense async --> \n\n\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" >\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 1024  && quads_screen_width < 1140 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width >= 768  && quads_screen_width < 1024 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }if ( quads_screen_width < 768 ) {document.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"pub-5465671415307957\" data-ad-slot=\"5861226924\" ><\/ins>');\r\n            (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n            }\n<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The local newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshopper.co.uk\/news\/top_stories\/9505172.Rare_species_of_duck_spotted_in_Thamesmead\/\">News Shopper, reported on the initial sightings<\/a> of the female Ferruginous duck, and it was covered by the Bexley Times and others. First seen in a lake near Thamesmead Town&#8217;s retail outlets, sadly it seemed to be entirely gone a week later, according to blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfbirds.com\/community-blogs\/bromleybirder\/2012\/01\/31\/thamesmead-greater-london-25th-january-2012\/\">The Bromley Birder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gone or not, the bird was definitely in residence briefly, a testament to the attempts to improve the green spaces around Thamesmead and the range of nature that is only a stones throw from the &#8220;concrete jungle&#8221;.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week or so there&#8217;s been a flurry of excitement from local twitchers regarding a duck. I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m anything like an expert on birdlife or fauna, but it&#8217;s nice to see the area getting some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/about-the-area\/duck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[38,76,136,156,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hawkida.net\/thamesmead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}