{"id":10728,"date":"2017-03-27T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T09:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:06:39","slug":"ring-necked-duck-hauxley-25-26th-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=10728","title":{"rendered":"Ring-necked Duck &#8211; Hauxley &#8211; 25-26th March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>Ring-necked Duck<\/strong> was found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdwatchingsites.ntbc.org.uk\/hauxley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hauxley<\/a> Nature Reserve last week and was popular with birders on the 25th-26th March. The site is currently closed for major development work, however was open last weekend to show members\/visitors how the project is developing etc..<\/p>\n<p>The bird was present\u00a0\u00a0initially at Hauxley on the Saturday, but later flew to East Chevington. The Ring-necked Duck was back again at Hauxley on the Sunday however and was showing very well from the &#8216;Wader Hide&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Hauxley remains closed again from Monday 27th March. Please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwt.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Northumberland Wildlife Trust<\/a> website to view any further open days.<\/p>\n<p>It is always worth checking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdwatchingsites.ntbc.org.uk\/east-chevington\/\" target=\"_blank\">East Chevington<\/a> just in case, it decides to go for a wander again to explore the magnificent\u00a0nature reserves of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdwatchingsites.ntbc.org.uk\/druridge-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Druridge Bay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The photos below are by Alan Curry and feature the Ring-necked Duck, whilst it was at Hauxley this weekend.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-1-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-1-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-1-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-1-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-2-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-2-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-2-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ring-necked-Duck-2-Hauxley-03-17-Alan-Curry-sightings-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ring-necked Duck was found at Hauxley Nature Reserve last week and was popular with birders on the 25th-26th March. The site is currently closed for major development work, however was open last weekend to show members\/visitors how the project is developing etc.. The bird was present\u00a0\u00a0initially at Hauxley on the Saturday, but later flew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}