{"id":169840,"date":"2025-09-30T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169840\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:53:09","slug":"pine-martens-spotted-on-night-vision-camera-in-the-mendips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169840\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Martens spotted on night vision camera in the Mendips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare sighting of a pine marten has been captured on a night vision camera. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animal was spotted in the Mendips, Somerset, by conservationists at the Patch Wilder project.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff monitoring the 15 acres of grassland and woodland say they could not believe it when they saw the pine marten as none have been officially released in the county.  Pine Martens are around half a metre long and typically roam between one and 20km. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have a characteristic white bib but it is such a surprise to see one, it took me a good couple of watches of the video for it to sink in,&#8221;  said ecologist Charlie Fayers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare sighting of a pine marten has been captured on a night vision camera. The animal was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-169840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}