{"id":21994,"date":"2013-08-19T19:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/our-river-teems-with-bird-life\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T19:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:30:35","slug":"our-river-teems-with-bird-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/our-river-teems-with-bird-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Our river teems with bird life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear Alan<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother had a home \u2013 just a holiday shack really \u2013 in Amsterdamhoek on the east bank of the Swartkops in the late 20s. My wife Lyn and I have lived in this valley for over 40 years now. From 1972 to 1991. At first in the village of Swartkops on the west bank in a wonderful wood  iron home \u2013 circa, 1900. Was an old hunting lodge. Then we moved to Bluewater Bay on the east bank.<\/p>\n<p>On our way home from church this Sunday morning we saw this flock of flamingos. Not as pink as usual this year though. They arrive every year to nest, but normally in the upper reaches in a vast marsh area, but for reasons unknown this season have flocked towards the mouth to feed. I have never experienced this over the years<\/p>\n<p>May it continue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FITS - an account of happy days in UItenhage and Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/09\/fits-how-an-e-mail-conversation-led-to-the-writing-of-local-book\/\"><strong>Warwick Owen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mype.co.za\/cgi-bin\/search.cgi?keywords=Amsterdamhoek\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28466\" alt=\"Swartkops Flamingos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/d46a1_Swartkops_Flamingos.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flamingos close to the Swartkops river mouth opposite Amsterdamhoek. Photo: Warwick Owen<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alan My grandmother had a home \u2013 just a holiday shack really \u2013 in Amsterdamhoek on the east bank of the Swartkops in the late 20s. My wife Lyn and I have lived in this valley for over 40 years now. From 1972 to 1991. At first in the village of Swartkops on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-21994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}