{"id":106,"date":"2009-05-28T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-05-28T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T16:07:34","slug":"cleopatra-20090528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Cleopatra-20090528"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3573579392\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3397\/3573579392_d7340422c0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/3573579392\/\">Cleopatra-20090528<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We had a lovely walk this morning along a new valley I&#8217;ve found near the Quinta. I&#8217;d already dropped the children off to school and in-between the first drop and the second had had time to sit quietly by a stream for a quarter of an hour and watch the Kingfishers, (we saw four different individuals), and an Otter&#8230;.. the sun was shining fit to bust and everywhere there was the hum of insects and the call of birds, Bee-eaters, Corn Buntings, Melodious Warblers, Stonechats, Linnets, Goldfinches, Wood Larks, Turtle Doves &#8230;.. and we had a good view of a Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle soaring above us too, but the walk we did up the valley was primarily in search of Butterflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies and these pictures are the result; I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them! (To see pictures and read news of the birds around the Quinta it&#8217;s best to visit my Birding Blog at www.birding-in-portugal.com)<br \/>\nWe only saw a few Cleopatras, and it was a pity that there was some shade across this photo &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleopatra-20090528, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. We had a lovely walk this morning along a new valley I&#8217;ve found near the Quinta. I&#8217;d already dropped the children off to school and in-between the first drop and the second had had time to sit quietly by a stream for a quarter of an hour and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[188,64],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterflies","tag-butterflies","tag-cleopatra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","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=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}