{"id":18797,"date":"2017-12-10T01:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/10\/as-britains-birdlife-takes-flight-skies-of-my-youth-are-changing-for-ever\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T01:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T00:05:21","slug":"as-britains-birdlife-takes-flight-skies-of-my-youth-are-changing-for-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=18797","title":{"rendered":"As Britain\u2019s birdlife takes flight, skies of my youth are changing for ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birds that were once rare visitors to Britain are becoming a regular sight in England, but in Scotland, Arctic species are likely to vanishEven though almost half a century has passed, I can still recall in vivid detail the events of a hot, sunny afternoon in August 1970. My mother and I were visiting Brownsea Island, off the Dorset coast. We entered a dark hide, opened the window and looked out across the lagoon. And there \u2013 shining like a beacon \u2013 was a Persil-white apparition: my first little egret.Back then, this ghostly member of the heron family was a very rare visitor to Britain. Nowadays, little egrets are so numerous that we hardly give them a second glance. On my local patch, the Avalon Marshes in the heart of Somerset, I have seen up to 60 in a single feeding flock. And, according to the magazine British Birds, there are now more than 1,000 breeding pairs, as far north as the Scottish border. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/dec\/10\/ptarmigan-squacco-climate-change-british-birdlife-changing\" target=\"_blank\">As Britain\u2019s birdlife takes flight, skies of my youth are changing for ever<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birds that were once rare visitors to Britain are becoming a regular sight in England, but in Scotland, Arctic species are likely to vanishEven though almost half a century has passed, I can still recall in vivid detail the events of a hot, sunny afternoon in August 1970. My mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}