{"id":22623,"date":"2026-09-26T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22623"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:10","slug":"park-dabchicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/park-dabchicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Dabchicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"22624\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/park-dabchicks\/dabchicks-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1790429473&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Dabchicks&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dabchicks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-id=\"22624\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Adult dabchick with offspring\" class=\"wp-image-22624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-620x620.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-668x668.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"22625\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/park-dabchicks\/dabchicks-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1790429549&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Dabchicks&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dabchicks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" data-id=\"22625\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Adult dabchick with offspring\" class=\"wp-image-22625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-620x620.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-668x668.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1-50x50.jpeg 50w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Dabchicks-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Park Pond, two young dabchicks with one or two parents. Never saw the parents at the same time. Fishing &amp; feeding the wee ones. About 10 metres along another adult &amp; young one. Was surprised as I&#8217;ve not seen many about over the summer. Nesting in the space between Islands out of sight I guess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Pond, two young dabchicks with one or two parents. Never saw the parents at the same time. Fishing &#038; feeding the wee ones. About 10 metres along another adult &#038; young one. Was surprised as I&#8217;ve not seen many about over the summer. Nesting in the space between Islands out of sight I guess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/park-dabchicks\/","https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/117337889713493802"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[953],"tags":[705,671,332,849],"post_format":[642],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","category-posse","tag-bird","tag-fauna","tag-photo","tag-victoria-park","post_format-post-format-status","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5ST","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22626,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}