{"id":458,"date":"2010-03-17T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/theres-snow-business\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:06:39","slug":"theres-snow-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/theres-snow-business\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s snow business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday&#8217;s snowfall in Catalonia made the records. It must be said that Barcelona doesn&#8217;t usually get knee-high in snow in early March.<\/p>\n<p>But the snow wasn&#8217;t just in Barcelona you know. The mountains of\u00a0the Pyrenees and pre-Pyrenees had a very good helping of the stuff too. On Monday the roads were blocked, but on Tuesday I took 3 photographers up to the site to photograph the Lammergeier through 30cm of snow. The landscape was a delight, the sky was\u00a0a perfect sky blue and the odd gust of wind blew glittering powdered snow around trees and rocks.<\/p>\n<p>We had to shovel snow and push the car through snow drifts. It took us 2 and a half hours to get to the feeding station when normally it only takes 25 minutes. But we had our reward. Unforgettable. The birds, the light, the landscape. The experience. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/carsnow11.jpg\" alt=\"Birding in Spain in the snowy Pyrenees.\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>BirdingInSpain.com, getting you to places where nobody else would even try.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/villahidesnow.jpg\" alt=\"Villa hide in the snow\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>A snow-capped Villa Hide<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/hideschenk.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Lammergeier photographers\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>There&#8217;snow problem! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday&#8217;s snowfall in Catalonia made the records. It must be said that Barcelona doesn&#8217;t usually get knee-high in snow in early March. But the snow wasn&#8217;t just in Barcelona you know. The mountains of\u00a0the Pyrenees and pre-Pyrenees had a very good helping of the stuff too. On Monday the roads were blocked, but on [&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-458","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\/p7I752-7o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}