{"id":262,"date":"2014-04-04T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:21:01","slug":"dawn-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to get up in time for the dawn chorus for a while but as my planned walk for tomorrow has been hijacked by the guides, I decided to go out this morning while it was still peaceful. I got out of the house by 6:30 while it was still half-light and the festivities were in full swing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"263\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=263\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396589983&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;13.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0404\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?fit=474%2C356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-263\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"DSCN0404\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0404.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took a couple of videos mainly for the audio to get a sense of the sounds but of course it didn&#8217;t really work particularly well. It might have been better if I&#8217;d stopped for a couple of minutes so that I wasn&#8217;t breathing so heavily.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXEZclGTDL0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a lovely walk surrounded by song although the dawn chorus proper died down around 7 unfortunately. Still it was a very peaceful experience to be up on the mountain so early while everyone else was still in bed. It was getting a bit quieter in the forest but not so much that it wasn&#8217;t still impressive. It might have been even more peaceful without two mad dogs<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMIBi9mKgQg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the dogs in the weird half natural half flash light inside the forest at 7 AM. She had a nice time of it anyway;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"264\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?attachment_id=264\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX L820&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1396590892&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0407\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?fit=300%2C225\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?fit=474%2C356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"DSCN0407\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?w=1600 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?w=948 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cartrongarrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DSCN0407.jpg?w=1422 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 30 I&#8217;ve been meaning to get up in time for the dawn chorus for a while but as my planned walk for tomorrow has been hijacked by the guides, I decided to go out this morning while it was still peaceful. I got out of the house by 6:30 while it was still half-light &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/?p=262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dawn Chorus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,2],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paARl1-4e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cartrongarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}