{"id":378,"date":"2007-08-27T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/south-bank-holiday-wikiballsup-and-peregrine-falcons\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T20:57:19","slug":"south-bank-holiday-wikiballsup-and-peregrine-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/south-bank-holiday-wikiballsup-and-peregrine-falcons\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bank Holiday, Wikiballsup and Peregrine Falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One argument in favour of Wikipedia tightening-up its editing restrictions could be that it&#8217;s too easy to make a diabolical cock-up. Like today, as a random example, I was attempting to create a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comical_House\" target=\"_new\">new article<\/a> and managed to replace the entire article on Buckingham Palace with my silly little page. Stupid I know, but it was all too easy to do. Of course, reverting the change was equally quick and easy, but the revision control means that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Buckingham_Palace&amp;oldid=153934109\" target=\"_new\">my profound stupidity will be recorded in the Wikipedia archives<\/a> until the end of time, or the end of Wikipedia, whichever comes sooner.<\/p>\n<p>After I corrected this faux pas, Michele and I went for a rare day out together to the South Bank. The idea was to do a walk from London Bridge to Waterloo and then go to a Tapas bar that a friend had tipped us off about. Apart from the Thameside walk being massively pleasurable, I figured we&#8217;d get to see at least some water-based avian activity along the way. What we could never have predicted was that a bunch of peregrine falcons would be nesting in the chimney of Tate Modern, and the RSPB had established a stall, titled &#8220;Aren&#8217;t Birds Brilliant!&#8221;, with scopes set-up so you could see the birds up there! Funny thing that &#8211; I&#8217;ve never seen a peregrine falcon in real life before a month ago, and now I&#8217;ve seen two. This was the first wild one I&#8217;ve ever seen though and she was a beauty. The RSPB reckon they chose the South Bank because of the high availability of food there &#8211; mainly pigeons.<\/p>\n<p>In all we saw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peregrine falcons<\/li>\n<li>Some lesser black backed gulls (including the beautiful juveniles)<\/li>\n<li>Baby pigeons<\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qjFuxpuwGM0\" target=\"_new\" title=\"One Motion Crew\">superb breakdancers<\/a> <b>[ Edit &#8211; that video has been removed, try <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=VfwoFH9l3bw\">this one<\/a> instead]<\/b><\/li>\n<li>A mass Bollywood dance lesson<\/li>\n<li>Loads of tourists, like us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It felt like being on holiday. Sods law meant that the Tapas bar had to be closed, and so after a long walk, a drink in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/21\/213\/Wellington\/Waterloo\" target=\"_new\">The Wellington<\/a> and another long walk we ended up getting some mind-blowing Italian food in a pizzaria at Gabriels Wharf.<br \/>\nMmmm&#8230;mussels in white wine sauce with too much garlic&#8230;.<br \/>\nNiceness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One argument in favour of Wikipedia tightening-up its editing restrictions could be that it&#8217;s too easy to make a diabolical cock-up. Like today, as a random example, I was attempting to create a new article and managed to replace the entire article on Buckingham Palace with my silly little page. Stupid I know, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}