{"id":161,"date":"2010-04-25T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-04-25T18:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:06:56","slug":"nightingale-3207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Nightingale-3207"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/4550858403\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4057\/4550858403_812aaa257f.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/4550858403\/\">Nightingale-3207<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOne of the most difficult birds to get a picture of as they always seem to sing from deep cover and project their song to five different points of the compass too. (Having said that of course, there&#8217;s always a Cetti&#8217;s warbler if I really want to lose a day or two!)<br \/>\nWe have at least two pairs of Nightingales in the garden every year, (and sometimes people even complain about the racket they make, but for me they&#8217;re worth it), and until they start singing here around the middle of April I don&#8217;t think of Spring as having arrived; however, as I say, getting a good view of one is a great deal harder than hearing them sing, and as I haven&#8217;t ever taken a good enough shot of one and I had some time to spare, I thought I&#8217;d give it a go in my lovely new portable hide this afternoon, so Daniela and I shooed the children away and settled down &#8230; as luck would have it right next door to their nest! For the last two hours we&#8217;ve been treated to them flying past within feet of us with nesting material; still damn hard to get a shot of one, but I rather like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nightingale-3207, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. One of the most difficult birds to get a picture of as they always seem to sing from deep cover and project their song to five different points of the compass too. (Having said that of course, there&#8217;s always a Cetti&#8217;s warbler if I really want to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}