{"id":74355,"date":"2024-02-25T16:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=74355"},"modified":"2024-02-25T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:31:56","slug":"muntjac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/02\/25\/muntjac\/","title":{"rendered":"Muntjac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a day to think about things other than racist politicians.<\/p>\n<p>On the recommendation of Duncan MacInnes, who commented here yesterday, we went to Lackford Lakes near Bury St Edmunds, which is now a stunning bird reserve. I had not been for some time.<\/p>\n<p>A great selection of ducks were to be seen at close quarters, as well as snipe, oystercatcher, several types of finch, plus blue, great, long-tailed, coal and marsh tit, nuthatch, tree creeper, and a great deal more, including many more dunnock than will ever normally be seen in a day. Only raptors were notable by their total absence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-550x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-550x733.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_4119-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there was a very tame muntjac and his mate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-74356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-16.25.01-550x829.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-16.25.01-550x829.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-16.25.01-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-16.25.01-265x400.png 265w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-16.25.01.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well worth a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a day to think about things other than racist politicians. On the recommendation of Duncan MacInnes, who commented here yesterday, we went to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/02\/25\/muntjac\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74358,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74355\/revisions\/74358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}