{"id":4046,"date":"2017-12-01T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2017-12-01T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:19:06","slug":"pagham-harbour-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/pagham-harbour-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pagham Harbour Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Google Webmaster Verification --><!-- End Google Webmaster Verification --><!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if lt IE 7]&gt;--><\/p>\n<div>\u00ad<\/div>\n<p><!-- END headtag.ascx --><\/p>\n<div>Each season brings a different experience at RSPB Pagham Harbour. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!-- Google Webmaster Verification --><!-- End Google Webmaster Verification --><!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;--><!--[if lt IE 7]&gt;--><!-- END headtag.ascx --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Winter is the busiest time across the Harbour with up to 20,000 birds feeding and roosting across the reserve. Large numbers of dark-bellied brent geese, lapwings and black-tailed godwits use the harbour or surrounding fields, with a supporting cast that includes grey and golden plovers, lapwings and dunlins. We sometimes get visits from common and grey seals which can be seen basking on the islands, sleeping off a heavy meal. Slavonian grebes are a speciality offshore, and red-breasted mergansers sail into the harbour.<\/p>\n<table id=\"species-mini\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/b\/brentgoose\/index.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/Images\/brentgoose_tcm9-17119.jpg?width=90&amp;crop=%28232,486,734,988%29\" alt=\"Brent goose - dark-bellied form\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/g\/greyplover\/index.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/Images\/grepl_tcm9-17199.jpg?width=90&amp;crop=%28548,584,1412,1448%29\" alt=\"Grey plover - winter plumage\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/r\/redbreastedmerganser\/index.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/Images\/rebme_tcm9-18212.jpg?width=90&amp;crop=%28416,478,1192,1254%29\" alt=\"Red-breasted merganser - male\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/s\/slavoniangrebe\/index.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/Images\/slagr_tcm9-17112.jpg?width=90&amp;crop=%28536,548,1472,1484%29\" alt=\"Slavonian grebe - breeding plumage\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/b\/brentgoose\/index.aspx\">Brent goose<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/g\/greyplover\/index.aspx\">Grey plover<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/r\/redbreastedmerganser\/index.aspx\">Red-breasted merganser<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/birds-and-wildlife\/bird-and-wildlife-guides\/bird-a-z\/s\/slavoniangrebe\/index.aspx\">Slavonian grebe<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ad Each season brings a different experience at RSPB Pagham Harbour. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds &#8211; some heading south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}