{"id":390,"date":"2009-07-24T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/?p=390"},"modified":"2010-03-26T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T11:02:53","slug":"thirsty-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty gulls and more crickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain this morning at about 8.45 am. Two juvenile gulls on a nearby roof were throwing their heads back and apparently drinking it &#8211; something I&#8217;ve never seen before. At the same time a woodpigeon on another roof seemed to be having a bath &#8211; cocking up first one wing then the other and preening its feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I passed two young gulls snuggled down together on an area of grass, like a pair of ducks. Probably the same ones I guess &#8211; I&#8217;ve heard them flying over and calling during the past few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417\" title=\"+ Big cricket\" src=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Big-cricket1.jpg\" alt=\"+ Big cricket\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Big-cricket1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Big-cricket1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discovered two more crickets today on the Skimmia &#8211; one larger and darker than the creature I saw yesterday and one much smaller and with only a single hind leg. No evidence of injury, the leg just isn&#8217;t there. Both the bigger crickets have a sort of scimitar-shaped &#8216;tail&#8217; but the smaller one doesn&#8217;t have that. They all look as if they&#8217;ve got eyes in their rear ends as well as on their heads, but presumably the rear ones serve some other purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" title=\"+ Two crickets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Two-crickets1.jpg\" alt=\"+ Two crickets\" width=\"559\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Two-crickets1.jpg 699w, http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/+-Two-crickets1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middle-size cricket and smallest one.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain this morning at about 8.45 am. Two juvenile gulls on a nearby roof were throwing their heads back and apparently drinking it &#8211; something I&#8217;ve never seen before. At the same time a woodpigeon on another roof seemed to be having a bath &#8211; cocking up first one wing then the other and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,81,41,40,23,14],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-crickets","tag-dawlish","tag-devon","tag-garden","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.engrailed.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}