{"id":2441,"date":"2023-12-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2023-11-21T21:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:33:53","slug":"advent-calendar-december-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/advent-calendar-december-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar &#8211; December 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll deviate a little from birds today for another landscape. It&#8217;s a mountainous landscape, set in the <strong>National Park of Aig\u00fcestortes<\/strong> in the <strong>Pyrenees of Catalonia<\/strong>. It&#8217;s the only place where I&#8217;ve been able to show people the rare and retiring <strong>Capercaillie<\/strong>, plus other birding gems such as the Black Woodpecker, Citril Finch, Lammergeier, Ring Ouzel, Crossbill, Crested Tit, White-throated Dipper and some other goodies.<\/p>\n<p>I tried many ways to get the image I wanted, but it was beyond my capabilities. Nevertheless, the beautiful landscape somewhat compensates for my poor technical skills.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2446\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/advent-calendar-december-9th\/attachment\/advent-9-encantats-wc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-9-encantats-wc.gif?fit=620%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"620,465\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"advent-9-encantats-wc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-9-encantats-wc.gif?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-9-encantats-wc.gif?fit=620%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/advent-9-encantats-wc.gif?resize=585%2C439&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2446\" width=\"585\" height=\"439\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> When someone says you can\u2019t do it, do it twice and take pictures  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! We&#8217;ll deviate a little from birds today for another landscape. It&#8217;s a mountainous landscape, set in the National Park of Aig\u00fcestortes in the Pyrenees of Catalonia. It&#8217;s the only place where I&#8217;ve been able to show people the rare and retiring Capercaillie, plus other birding gems such as the Black Woodpecker, Citril Finch, [&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-2441","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-Dn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","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=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}