With good conditions suggesting grounded migrants along the east coast I headed to Newbiggin post-school run. Chiffchaff called from the plantation beside the Mound as I donned waterproofs. Arriving at the first ash lagoon scrub I was joined by Tim Cleeves and Maurice Hepple then a few minutes later by Andy Mclevy and Mark Welfare.<\/p>\n
A couple of Redwing calls in the mist along with Blackbirds and Song Thrushes rushing around the scrub set the autumnal feel, first decent bird was a smart looking Lesser Whitethroat<\/strong>, quickly followed by 2 Blackcaps. A flash of bright green and a Yellow-browed Warbler<\/strong> zipped across the back of the scrub, eventually showing well. At least one Chiffchaff was here too.<\/p>\n As conversation turned to elephants and India, a loud croaky bugle call had everyone looking skyward, at first distant and then almost overhead a Common Crane<\/strong> moved over us calling but remained unseen in the heavy mist.<\/p>\n ADMc\/MW and I headed north, more Chiffchaffs and a female\/1st-winter Brambling dropping into the scrub were the highlights at the gorse, Common Whitethroat and Blackcap here too.<\/p>\n Beacon Point produced a single male Snow Bunting<\/strong> flying north and later a phone call from Alan Priest added a second Yellow-browed Warbler just to the south of Beacon Point.<\/p>\n A second circuit alone added nothing more exciting than a female-type Stonechat around the gorse and 12 Bar-tailed Godwits on the beach.<\/p>\n Alan Tilmouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With good conditions suggesting grounded migrants along the east coast I headed to Newbiggin post-school run. Chiffchaff called from the plantation beside the Mound as I donned waterproofs. Arriving at the first ash lagoon scrub I was joined by Tim Cleeves and Maurice Hepple then a few minutes later by Andy Mclevy and Mark Welfare. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2297","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\/2297","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}