{"id":243554,"date":"2025-11-04T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243554\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:55:08","slug":"migratory-geese-return-to-southsea-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243554\/","title":{"rendered":"Migratory geese return to Southsea Common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flocks tend to arrive from Siberia in early October and it is not the first time the site has been fenced off for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson from Southsea Coastal Scheme added: &#8220;Last year we successfully used this area for the geese, with our highest number spotted in the refuge at one time coming in at 380.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Throughout the wintering period we recorded 12 three-figure counts of geese, four of which were in excess of 300.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southsea Common is officially recognised as a Solent Wader and Brent Goose Strategy site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The refuge will be monitored throughout the winter and the fencing will be removed as the geese begin their long journey back to Siberia for the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flocks tend to arrive from Siberia in early October and it is not the first time the site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-243554","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\/243554","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=243554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}