{"id":3760,"date":"2025-08-21T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:25:53","slug":"kingfisher-at-widewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/?p=3760","title":{"rendered":"Kingfisher at Widewater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around this time of year we usually have one or more Kingfishers visiting Widewater and for the last few days, we have had a male Kingfisher sitting on our garden wall. We have also spotted him sitting in the Tamarisk trees east of the footbridge and I was lucky enough to take these photos of the little beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250821_111024-1600x1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing the Kingfisher back at Widewater is a great signal of how well the lagoon has been returning to it&#8217;s former glory since our MP Tom Rutland, WoW Chair Gill Purnell and Lancing <a><\/a>Parish Council got together with various other agencies involved to arrange for the speedy clearance of the Mitigation Pipe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around this time of year we usually have one or more Kingfishers visiting Widewater and for the last few days,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}