{"id":1920,"date":"2013-07-28T08:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T08:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:31:36","slug":"a-good-wader-day-july-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=1920","title":{"rendered":"A good wader day &#8211; 27th July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Cresswell Pond yesterday morning, I had only time for the briefest of looks before a message came through of an adult Spotted Sandpiper at Foxton. 20 minutes later I was watching what was a county tick ,yet another in this good year for new county birds for me,this being my 4th. I had seen the last Spotted Sand. some years ago at Derwent Reservoir,but only from the Durham side .<\/p>\n<p>A cracking find ,the bird fed below the road ,on the river&#8217;s muddy edges. Most of the county&#8217;s regular twitchers began arriving as the morning went on. Also present on the river ,were 4-5 Common Sands,a Greenshank, 3 R. B. Mergansers and a Kingfisher.<\/p>\n<p>I left,heading up the coast to Newton,where a walk to the Long Nanny revealed a host of butterflies in the wild flower patches that have survived the dry summer,the grass being burnt brown. I noted at least 50 each of Meadow Brown, Common Blue and Small Heath. Also Several Tortoiseshells, and\u00a0Small Skippers and\u00a09 or 10 Dark Green fritilliaries.<\/p>\n<p>At the Nanny Burn, around 500 Arctic Terns were on the beach,many feeding fledged young-no L ittle Terns now. Sadly, the remains of 6 young terns were seen , victims of predators. Perhaps one of the culprits hovered above\u00a0 in the shape of a Kestrel. Resting on the beach were 35 Sanderling, in various states of plumage moult ,a few Dunlin with them.<\/p>\n<p>Back down to East Chevington ,where water levels look excellent for passage waders this summer\/autumn. Feeding on the mud were 6 Knot,35 Dunlin, a Wood Sandpiper,Curlew Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper also a Little Egret was catching plenty of small fish. Good numbers of terns and Lapwings here too.<\/p>\n<p>A S Jack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1921 alignleft\" alt=\"rsz_l_nanny_001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_001-300x200.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_001-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_001.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1925 alignleft\" alt=\"rsz_l_nanny_007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_007-300x200.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_007-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_007.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_0041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" alt=\"rsz_l_nanny_004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_0041-300x200.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_0041-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rsz_l_nanny_0041.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriving at Cresswell Pond yesterday morning, I had only time for the briefest of looks before a message came through of an adult Spotted Sandpiper at Foxton. 20 minutes later I was watching what was a county tick ,yet another in this good year for new county birds for me,this being my 4th. I had [&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-1920","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\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}