{"id":105,"date":"2009-05-19T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-05-28T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T18:05:09","slug":"red-rumped-swallow-20090507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Red-rumped-Swallow-20090507"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red-rumped-Swallow-20090507<\/a>, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It seems ages since I wrote the last entry in this blog \u2013 it all goes to show that there\u2019s no rest for the wicked I suppose! So what\u2019s been happening?
\nWell, the sun\u2019s been shining and most days recently I seem to have been out there guiding and birding – and when I haven\u2019t been doing that I\u2019ve been trying to catch up with the paperwork that always goes on behind the scenes.
\nNow I\u2019m not going to bore anyone with the ins and outs of the paperwork, (which just seems to get more tedious, involved and threatening every day \u2013 the latest gem is a threat from our local authority to fine any business that doesn\u2019t comply with the latest State grab for more money with a fine of two and a half million euros!), as the photos below make up for all the days we have to spend doing it. They were all taken during the last couple of weeks during which time the Quinta\u2019s been lucky enough to play host to some far better photographers than I\u2019ll ever be, but these are my offerings; some of them are colourful, some of them not, some of them interesting to the general public, and some of them interesting only to those of us who get a thrill from distinguishing one little brown bird from another! The one above is of course of one of my favourite species, a Red-rumped Swallow. They were picking up nesting material from the petrol station forecourt in Santa Clara, so it was a nice easy shot to make \u2013 comfortable too, sitting in the bar with a drink by my elbow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red-rumped-Swallow-20090507, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. It seems ages since I wrote the last entry in this blog \u2013 it all goes to show that there\u2019s no rest for the wicked I suppose! So what\u2019s been happening? Well, the sun\u2019s been shining and most days recently I seem to have been out there guiding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[183,50],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-birds","tag-red-rumped-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}