{"id":582,"date":"2019-05-03T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retreat-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:42:55","slug":"rocknroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Rock’n’Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This has got absolutely nothing at all to do with the Quinta, apart from the fact that I’m quite partial to photographing Nature – and birds in particular, as you can see from the Quinta’s other website, www.birding-in-portugal.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, at the risk of muddling those who read this blog with no interest at all in our avian friends, I find these two shots quite interesting … <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months ago Daniela and I were in Thailand chasing birds – what else?! – and the day before we left I was lucky enough to get a lovely picture of an Indian Roller …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

… and then yesterday I was out guiding a birding trip from the Quinta and I managed a very similar shot of a European Roller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European Roller (Coracias garrulus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And they say that European birds are all “brown and boring” … I dunno about you, but they sure as hell rock my boat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has got absolutely nothing at all to do with the Quinta, apart from the fact that I’m quite partial to photographing Nature – and birds in particular, as you can see from the Quinta’s other website, www.birding-in-portugal.com. However, at the risk of muddling those who read this blog with no interest at all in […]<\/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":[4,201,200,198,199,202,3,203,197],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alentejo","tag-beautiful-bird","tag-blue-bird","tag-european-roller","tag-indian-roller","tag-outstretched-wing","tag-portugal","tag-portuguese-bird","tag-roller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}