{"id":121,"date":"2008-06-28T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T08:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/mysterious-wetland-near-lleida-spain\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T08:51:02","slug":"mysterious-wetland-near-lleida-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/mysterious-wetland-near-lleida-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious wetland near Lleida, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Little Bittern<\/strong>, <strong>Squacco Heron<\/strong>, <strong>Night Heron<\/strong>, Purple Heron, Grey Heron, Cattle Egret &#8211; could all be nesting in a <strong>wetland near Lleida<\/strong> that used to be a rubbish tip. It was going cheap so Lleida City Council bought it, but they don&#8217;t really know what to do with it. While they&#8217;re sitting thinking about it at least the birds have shown enough initiative to use it as a nesting site.<\/p>\n<p>So for the time being it&#8217;s just the odd poacher, the shepherd, the bird counter (me) and the birds. Until some rich, progressive-minded benefactor comes up with the cash to give it a facelift. As long as the birds keep coming, I don&#8217;t mind it too much as it is. I can listen to the <strong>Golden Orioles<\/strong>, the <strong>Melodious Warblers<\/strong>, and may even get a glimpse of the <strong>Kingfisher<\/strong>. There aren&#8217;t many places with more birds than people so close to Lleida city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Bittern, Squacco Heron, Night Heron, Purple Heron, Grey Heron, Cattle Egret &#8211; could all be nesting in a wetland near Lleida that used to be a rubbish tip. It was going cheap so Lleida City Council bought it, but they don&#8217;t really know what to do with it. While they&#8217;re sitting thinking about it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-1X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}