{"id":1527,"date":"2026-06-08T19:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2026-06-08T20:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:11:51","slug":"booming-bittern-at-scorton-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/booming-bittern-at-scorton-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Booming Bittern at Scorton Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please listen to the video in this article and make sure to turn your volume up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A growing number of people have been lucky enough to hear the booming mating cry of a male bittern nesting in the reed beds at Scorton Lakes.  Its distinctive booming call has been heard throughout the past few days.  The bittern is a rare and shy heron and spends almost all of the time hidden away in large reed beds.  Although numbers are recovering nationally there are still only thought to be a few hundred bitterns in the UK so the fact we have one here emphasises the importance and quality of Scorton Lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter has-custom-css wp-custom-css-c4837eb3\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2247.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please listen to the video in this article and make sure to turn your volume up. A growing number of people have been lucky enough to hear the booming mating cry of a male bittern nesting in the reed beds at Scorton Lakes. Its distinctive booming call has been heard throughout the past few days. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scortonlakes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}