{"id":82219,"date":"2025-10-15T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82219\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:22:10","slug":"sunrise-hop-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/82219\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Hop | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising Scandinavian sun.<\/p>\n<p>Marc camped out in the snow for five nights to ensure he was in position at sunrise to get the picture he\u2019d envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>Lying on his belly, he waited, hoping that one of the 15 black grouse would move into line with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, one obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Male black grouse have blue-black iridescent plumage. As they raise their tails, they reveal brilliant white covert feathers.<\/p>\n<p>For a few weeks in spring, they congregate at sites called leks to compete for dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60,3741,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":{"0":"post-82219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-nature-photography","17":"tag-wildlife-competition","18":"tag-wildlife-images","19":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","20":"tag-wildphoto","21":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}