{"id":11676,"date":"2017-10-02T21:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2017-10-04T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:37:30","slug":"september-27th-st-marys-nightjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=11676","title":{"rendered":"September 27th 2017 &#8211;  St. Mary&#8217;s &#8211; Nightjar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bird glimpsed on a track at St. Mary&#8217;s\u00a0on the morning of 27 th was later identified from a photo as a Nightjar.It was\u00a0thought to have left the area. I arrived in the afternoon in the hope of finding the bird had perhaps roosted among the trees and bushes surrounding the wetland area. My hunch was right as I located the Nightjar dozing on bare ground under a small bush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11677 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_194-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_194-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_194-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_194-525x400.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_194.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOn seeing me it flew and could not be found. I wondered if it might return to it&#8217;s chosen roost site and indeed it had when I checked there once more. It did fly however once again, as a lady had unwittingly flushed it. Gladly though, it once again came back to the exact same spot.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_217-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_217-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_217-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_217-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017_09_27_9999_217.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I called a few locals and put out the news of what is the third area record of the species in only the past decade. It remained under the bush affording superb views to the small assembled crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The Nightjar was I thought a juvenile or female bird showing no white on the lower throat as in the male and no white in the wings or tail corners\u00a0when in flight. The bird appeared to depart that evening despite wet conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A.S.Jack<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird glimpsed on a track at St. Mary&#8217;s\u00a0on the morning of 27 th was later identified from a photo as a Nightjar.It was\u00a0thought to have left the area. I arrived in the afternoon in the hope of finding the bird had perhaps roosted among the trees and bushes surrounding the wetland area. My hunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11676","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\/11676","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11676"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11705,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11676\/revisions\/11705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}