{"id":1871,"date":"2013-07-14T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:27:03","slug":"tranwell-area-july-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Tranwell area &#8211; 14th July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cycle ride today again \u00a0in hot conditions,though quite a stiff north easterly blowing offered some respite. My route was Stannington , Tranwell to Whalton, Shilvington to Ogle, Twizel\u00a0\u00a0and Saltwick Hill. This offered peaceful riding along quiet country lanes and a wealth of bird and insect life.<\/p>\n<p>Again,many Yellowhammers singing from bush-tops,with 29 males counted. Skylarks too into double figures,as were Whitethroats. Bullfinch ,Long tailed Tit ,Blue and Great Tit. Linnet and Willow Warbler , all in family parties as birds seemed to be having a very good breeding season this year in the settled weather. 2 Marsh Tits seen at different sites and at Tranwell, Nuthatch and Gt spotted Woodpecker heard. At a site on the upper reaches of the River Blyth , splendid Banded Demoiselle males dragonflies\u00a0chased each other. Dozens of Trout and several \u00a0frogs could be see in the clear\u00a0river. Butterflies included many Meadow Browns , Ringlets and Common Blues, as well as several Skippers and Walls.<\/p>\n<p>At Shilvington , a colony of House Martins was very active ,with young both fledged and still in the nests being fed.\u00a0 Good numbers of Swifts and Swallows fed over fields . Oystercatchers, Curlews and Lapwings\u00a0 were feeding in newly harvested\u00a0fields ,with hundreds of corvids and Black headed and Common Gulls.<\/p>\n<p>A.S. Jack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cycle ride today again \u00a0in hot conditions,though quite a stiff north easterly blowing offered some respite. My route was Stannington , Tranwell to Whalton, Shilvington to Ogle, Twizel\u00a0\u00a0and Saltwick Hill. This offered peaceful riding along quiet country lanes and a wealth of bird and insect life. Again,many Yellowhammers singing from bush-tops,with 29 males counted. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1871","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\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}