{"id":12638,"date":"2015-03-19T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=12638"},"modified":"2015-03-19T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:53:21","slug":"cairngorms-nature-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/cairngorms-nature-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairngorms Nature Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dates and programme for this year&#8217;s Cairngorms Nature Festival have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Cairngorms Nature Festival will be held over the weekend of Saturday 16 &#038;  Sunday 17 May and will focus on events within a 20 minute drive of four centres: Aviemore, Ballater, Blair Atholl and Tomintoul.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_8982\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blackgrouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8982\" src=\"\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blackgrouse.jpg\" alt=\"Black Grouse lek\" width=\"310\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blackgrouse.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/blackgrouse-200x129.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Grouse lek<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nPlanned activities include a family night camping out with a ranger to experience the sights and sounds of night time wildlife, guided walks to lesser visited spots in the Cairngorms, a sunset photography session, and a dawn black grouse lek safari. Whilst there are plenty of family events and sessions aimed at children there are also longer walks, and events where adults have a chance to take on volunteering and scientific activities.<\/p>\n<p>Events are still being added to the programme but you can check out and book the events planned so far on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cairngorms.co.uk\/look-after\/cairngorms-nature\/festival\">Cairngorms Nature website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dates and programme for this year&#8217;s Cairngorms Nature Festival have been announced. The Cairngorms Nature Festival will be held over the weekend of Saturday 16 &#038; Sunday 17 May and will focus on events within a 20 minute drive of four centres: Aviemore, Ballater, Blair Atholl and Tomintoul. Planned activities include a family night camping out with a ranger to experience the sights and sounds of night time wildlife, guided walks to lesser visited spots in the Cairngorms, a sunset photography session, and a dawn black grouse lek safari. Whilst there are plenty of family events and sessions aimed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/cairngorms-nature-festival\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12641,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions\/12641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}