{"id":1474,"date":"2013-05-27T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2013-05-27T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:47:00","slug":"rspb-st-aidans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"RSPB St Aidan&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new RSPB reserve (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/reserves\/guide\/s\/staidans\/\">http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/reserves\/guide\/s\/staidans\/<\/a>)\u00a0opened this weekend, and what is great is that it is only 12 miles from our house! Just next door to RSPB Fairburn Ings, St Aidan&#8217;s is again an example of nature taking back what is lost as it is an old open cast mine. Just like at Fairburn, lakes and reed beds have been created, and a lot of wildlife is already present. One major inhabitant is as breeding Bittern. Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t see the Bittern, or hear it, but we saw loads of other birds. Highlights were Reed Buntings, and Greylag goslings!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The site is based around a number of walks of differing lengths, and there is a new visitor centre by the entrance. We could have done with some benches on the way around but it&#8217;s early days yet.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By the entrance is a major heritage project remembering the open cast part of the history of the area, a great big machine!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A very pleasant day, before the sun went in, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll visit again soon to try out the other routes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><center><object width=\"600\" height=\"450\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F78727272%40N08%2Fsets%2F72157633735767443%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F78727272%40N08%2Fsets%2F72157633735767443%2F&amp;set_id=72157633735767443&amp;jump_to=\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=124984\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"450\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=124984\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F78727272%40N08%2Fsets%2F72157633735767443%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F78727272%40N08%2Fsets%2F72157633735767443%2F&amp;set_id=72157633735767443&amp;jump_to=\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/center>=-=-=-=-=<br \/>\n<i>Powered by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogilo.gnufolks.org\/\">Blogilo<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new RSPB reserve (http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/reserves\/guide\/s\/staidans\/)\u00a0opened this weekend, and what is great is that it is only 12 miles from our house! Just next door to RSPB Fairburn Ings, St Aidan&#8217;s is again an example of nature taking back what is lost as it is an old open cast mine. Just like at Fairburn, lakes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trips","category-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}