{"id":5,"date":"2025-11-27T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:19:24","slug":"yesterday-middleton-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday: Middleton Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I managed to get out yesterday and went for a walk at RSPB Middleton Lakes. I got to see a couple of Nuthatch as they foraged. I was on the Canal Bridge when one flew across and said hello. So I got this picture as it hopped onto the wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"867\" src=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-1024x867.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-1024x867.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-768x650.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-1536x1300.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Nuthatch-2048x1734.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The week before I had seen a Treecreeper in the woodland though it didn&#8217;t come so close<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"933\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-933x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-933x1024.jpg 933w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-768x843.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-1400x1536.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Treecreeper-1867x2048.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A little later 3 swans flew past, 2 adults and a youngster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-1024x521.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-1024x521.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-768x391.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-1536x781.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/incoming-swans-2048x1041.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to get out yesterday and went for a walk at RSPB Middleton Lakes. I got to see a couple of Nuthatch as they foraged. I was on the Canal Bridge when one flew across and said hello. So I got this picture as it hopped onto the wall The week before I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previous-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}