{"id":123052,"date":"2025-10-15T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123052\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:33:13","slug":"sunrise-hop-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123052\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Hop | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising Scandinavian sun.<\/p>\n<p>Marc camped out in the snow for five nights to ensure he was in position at sunrise to get the picture he\u2019d envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>Lying on his belly, he waited, hoping that one of the 15 black grouse would move into line with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, one obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Male black grouse have blue-black iridescent plumage. As they raise their tails, they reveal brilliant white covert feathers.<\/p>\n<p>For a few weeks in spring, they congregate at sites called leks to compete for dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,29690,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-nature-photography","18":"tag-wildlife-competition","19":"tag-wildlife-images","20":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","21":"tag-wildphoto","22":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}