{"id":731298,"date":"2026-08-08T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731298\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:28:09","slug":"photographers-catch-wildlife-on-show-in-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731298\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers catch wildlife on show in summer heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographers have captured wildlife on camera as the last month of meteorological summer winds down.<\/p>\n

In Cumbria, Paul Murdock spotted a red kite “being mobbed” by a gull near Coniston, while Natasha Roberts snapped a “hiding vixen” in Staveley.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Lee Johnston was driving near Allenheads in the North Pennines when he had an encounter “he would never forget” after a short-eared owl started hunting in front of him.<\/p>\n

England had its driest July on record in a series since 1836, with just 6.5mm of rainfall recorded, according to the Met Office. <\/p>\n

You can find some tips for helping wildlife in the heat here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographers have captured wildlife on camera as the last month of meteorological summer winds down. In Cumbria, Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-731298","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\/731298","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=731298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}