{"id":85,"date":"2008-03-03T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/we-know-youre-in-there-moustached-warbler\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T13:31:41","slug":"we-know-youre-in-there-moustached-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/we-know-youre-in-there-moustached-warbler\/","title":{"rendered":"We know you&#8217;re in there Moustached Warbler!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will that <strong>Moustached Warbler<\/strong> which was singing just a moment ago please come out from the base of the reeds and show itself to us? My companion Jim has come all the way from <strong>Japan<\/strong> to watch birds and a reasonable glimpse of a Moustached Warbler would round off the morning nicely.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the things about <strong>birding<\/strong>, above all about bird guiding. Sometimes the birds you have been checking on all week seem to get cold feet just at the time when it counts the most: when you&#8217;ve told your companion that this is a really good place for <strong>Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle<\/strong>, or that <strong>Wallcreepers<\/strong> turn up on this particular rock face with great regularity in the winter months. Then when you&#8217;re standing there waiting, waiting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the moments when you detect a bird you didn&#8217;t expect.. Like a <strong>Moustached Warbler<\/strong> singing in a narrow line of reeds in the <strong>Llobregat Delta<\/strong>. You stop, listen and wait, knowing that the bird is there. But does it show? No, not today!<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not complaining, not really. After all in just two hours in the Llobregat delta we saw a lot of key birds, like Audouin&#8217;s Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Glossy Ibis, Greater Flamingo, Penduline Tit, Velvet Scoter and even a couple of <strong>Balearic Shearwaters<\/strong> at close range.<\/p>\n<p>So no complaining. That&#8217;s birding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will that Moustached Warbler which was singing just a moment ago please come out from the base of the reeds and show itself to us? My companion Jim has come all the way from Japan to watch birds and a reasonable glimpse of a Moustached Warbler would round off the morning nicely. That&#8217;s one 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-1n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}