{"id":65652,"date":"2024-12-04T19:17:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=65652"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:20:35","slug":"a-yellow-wagtail-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-yellow-wagtail-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"A yellow wagtail mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildness and the lovely birds<br \/>\nwagtails to be sure<br \/>\nWho nest on arable grass land<br \/>\nFor them it\u2019s like a war<br \/>\nOf attrition for the mission<br \/>\nOf their family and their young<br \/>\nOf building nests of straw and feathers<br \/>\nLiving  out among<\/p>\n<p>Farming lands, imagine it<br \/>\nThe great threat for them all<br \/>\nCombine harvesters<br \/>\nIt\u2019s high energy grass<br \/>\nFor the cows<br \/>\nit\u2019s all on call<br \/>\nSilage fermented energy<br \/>\nAnd eggs and babies they<br \/>\nOften just get crushed<br \/>\nDead to the world<br \/>\nSo many pay<\/p>\n<p>Little fawns left waiting<br \/>\nA mother<br \/>\nWhen she comes to  find her charges<br \/>\nBroken<br \/>\nEmotionally she sums<br \/>\nup all the shocking sadness<br \/>\nher precious babies they<br \/>\nWe\u2019re Crushed and lost forever<br \/>\nLeaving her in with such dismay <\/p>\n<p>Wagtails lives are complex<br \/>\nOut in fields where we<br \/>\nCare about our profit base<br \/>\nMore Than wild birds flying free<br \/>\nThey just   don\u2019t get a look In<br \/>\nRoe deer babies<br \/>\nthey<br \/>\nJust don\u2019t know what hits them<br \/>\nThe family blown away<br \/>\nFarmland birds are suffering<br \/>\nReduced now a great deal<br \/>\nTractors take out everything<br \/>\nYes Life and death is Real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildness and the lovely birds wagtails to be sure Who nest on arable grass land For them it\u2019s like a war Of attrition for the mission Of their family and their young Of building nests of straw and feathers Living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-yellow-wagtail-mother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,137,512,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-country-tale","category-birds-and-the-environment","category-farming","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65655,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65652\/revisions\/65655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}