{"id":731500,"date":"2026-08-08T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731500\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:58:11","slug":"photographers-capture-berkshires-stunning-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731500\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers capture Berkshire&#8217;s stunning wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Among the highlights is a striking barn swallow, its glossy blue plumage and rust-red throat beautifully detailed as it perches for the camera. Elsewhere, a pair of butterflies rest among summer blooms, creating a colourful scene that showcases the season&#8217;s abundance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Two different butterflies together &#8211; a cracking photo! (Image: Lesley Tilson)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Birdlife also features prominently, with an action-packed image showing young goldfinches splashing in a garden bird bath, droplets frozen in mid-air.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Birds washing in the water butt (Image: Sue Craigs Erwin)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another garden visitor, a woodpigeon, is pictured cooling off in the water during the recent warm weather.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Pigeon enjoying a bath (Image: David Turner)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Away from the garden, two hares stand alert in a sun-drenched field, offering a glimpse of one of the county&#8217;s most iconic mammals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Together, the photographs highlight the beauty and diversity of local wildlife, demonstrating the patience, skill and keen eye of the photographers behind the lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the highlights is a striking barn swallow, its glossy blue plumage and rust-red throat beautifully detailed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-731500","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\/731500","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=731500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}