{"id":2683,"date":"2016-02-17T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2016-02-17T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:08:21","slug":"glastonbury-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/glastonbury-sparrows\/","title":{"rendered":"A short survey of sparrows in Glastonbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Glastonbury, Somerset, and the house sparrows have started calling at nest sites there, They haven&#8217;t started in Ipswich. So I tried the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sparrows\/gps-surveying\/index.html\">audio recorder\/GPS track<\/a> surveying method. Each of the flags is where there was a male calling, or a male was sighted, along the lines of the BTO survey protcol [ref]Protocol for censusing urban sparrows, DeLaet, Peach and Summers-Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/britishbirds.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/V104_N05_P255%E2%80%93260_A.pdf\">British Birds<\/a>, 104, May 2011, p255 ff[\/ref]<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/sparrows\/2016\/glastonbury1602.html\" width=\"490\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I covered a decent area, but not as thoroughly as I thought I had done. The sparrows seem in good heart, however, a more continuous coverage than I feel they are in Ipswich, where the colonies strike me as more fragmented. We will see.<\/p>\n<p>My general impression was that sparrows are doing better in Glastonbury than many parts of Ipswich. The route I took left residential areas for the high Street, I know there are sparrows in Northload street so the two clusters might join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Glastonbury, Somerset, and the house sparrows have started calling at nest sites there, They haven&#8217;t started in Ipswich. So I tried the audio recorder\/GPS track surveying method. Each of the flags is where there was a male calling, or a male was sighted, along the lines of the BTO survey protcol [ref]Protocol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/glastonbury-sparrows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A short survey of sparrows in Glastonbury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[296],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-sparrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5aOO7-Hh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardmudhar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}