{"id":613797,"date":"2026-05-31T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:30:09","slug":"your-photos-of-wildlife-from-a-scorching-week-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613797\/","title":{"rendered":"Your photos of wildlife from a scorching week in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A soaring kestrel and a hunting stork are among the wildlife snapped by photographers during a sunny week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It saw temperatures exceed 34C in south-east England for two days in a row and a new May record of 35.1C was recorded at Kew Gardens in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over in Cumbria, Phil Groves said he was was having lunch up on Queen Adelaides Hill in Windermere when he spotted a kestrel behind him, adding it was &#8220;such a beautiful bird to watch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile Tarquin Pentecast saw a banded demoiselle after he sought shade by a small brook close to the River Derwent in the &#8220;beautiful county he called home&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soaring kestrel and a hunting stork are among the wildlife snapped by photographers during a sunny week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-613797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613797","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=613797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}