{"id":44,"date":"2008-01-23T17:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/spring-photography-and-leaping-bustards\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T12:22:07","slug":"spring-photography-and-leaping-bustards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/spring-photography-and-leaping-bustards\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring photography and leaping bustards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is the time when the <strong>Spanish steppes<\/strong> are at their yearly zenith and <strong>Little Bustards<\/strong> celebrate the fact with much foot pattering, leaping, wing flapping and head jerking! It&#8217;s time to impress the lady bustards and fend off male competitors and, in the opinion of the <strong>Little Bustard<\/strong>, there&#8217;s nothing like a bit of head jerking and raspberry blowing to do just the job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Birdinginspain.com<\/strong> is teaming up with <strong>Jordi Bas<\/strong>, a renowned bird photographer who lives near Lleida, and <strong>Castellsdelleida.com<\/strong> (a local tourism agent) to offer a <strong>special trip for nature photographers<\/strong> who are keen to snap up the Little Bustard in one of its comic, er, dynamic postures.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the <strong>Lammergeier<\/strong> sortie: we&#8217;ll take the lucky few along a long and winding path to a remote hide, we&#8217;ll drop bait for <strong>the Lammergeier<\/strong> and then we&#8217;ll leave the photographers alone with the birds until the following day! Lammergeiers are shy and wary but do not shun free food. So we&#8217;ll be hoping for good photographic opportunities for the Lammergeier as well as the Griffon Vulture and perhaps the Egyptian Vulture.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the week we&#8217;ll concentrate our efforts on <strong>Bee-eaters,<\/strong> Penduline Tits, Blue Rock Thrushes, Little Owls, Calandra Larks&#8230; and more.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you can make it! For more information go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\" title=\"Birdinginspain.com main site\">Birdinginspain.com<\/a> website and send an e-mail to Steve West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is the time when the Spanish steppes are at their yearly zenith and Little Bustards celebrate the fact with much foot pattering, leaping, wing flapping and head jerking! It&#8217;s time to impress the lady bustards and fend off male competitors and, in the opinion of the Little Bustard, there&#8217;s nothing like a bit of [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-and-wildlife-trips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}