\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A day on Holy Island. Not the right day of course hence no Thrush Nightingale , Blyth’s Reed Warbler or Little Bunting (all seen in recent weeks) but still atmospheric as always. Two Little Egret by the causeway. Started at Chare Ends & walked round to Emmanuel Head. Gannet passage south in full flow. After counting 150 in first five minutes I estimated 1,000 in the hour there. Also 1 Great Skua, plus a few Kittiwakes , Guillemots & Razorbills. Nothing at the lough & on to Crooked Lonnen where the Golden Plover flock was encamped , no American unfortunately. Look at Straight Lonnen but all quite in the stiff S\/E breeze. The village proved more productive with a smart male Redstart at the back of the school plus five Brambling. Thrush movement was noticeable all day with many Song Thrush & Redwing dropping out of sky into bushes. Back to car park & drove to Snook. Also fairly quite here but did have single Redstarts at Snook & Half Moon Slack with a Ring Ouzel also at latter site. Even with lack of migrants the numbers of waders & geese were still a fine sight with the wader roost of Oystercatcher & Bar-tailed Godwit on St Cuthbert’s Island impressive. Also the whole Pale-bellied Brent Goose flock of at least 1,500 birds were close to the road. TRD <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A day on Holy Island. Not the right day of course hence no Thrush Nightingale , Blyth’s Reed Warbler or Little Bunting (all seen in recent weeks) but still atmospheric as always. Two Little Egret by the causeway. Started at Chare Ends & walked round to Emmanuel Head. Gannet passage south in full flow. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2328","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\/2328","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}