A drive up to Bamburgh intent on finally connecting with Black Guillemot in the county as one reported yesterday off Stag Rocks. A thorough search of the sea revealed many birds but no Black Guillemot. Numbers were well up on recent visits with c300 Common Scoter in a distant flock, at least 35 Long-tailed Ducks spread out , 8 Slavonian Grebes close in plus many commoner species including 2 Kittiwake, 6 Razorbill, 8 Fulmar (now nesting on the castle),Shags, 6 Red-throated Divers and 40 Purple Sandpiper.<\/p>\n
On to Budle Bay and a European White-front in with the Greylags plus the wintering Greenshank in the S\/E corner and four adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls (first of year in county). Further stops at Fenham le Moor & Holy Island causeway were good for the soul but with no particular highlights. Finished as usual with a Roast Sunday lunch at Barn at Beal !<\/p>\n
TR&J Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A drive up to Bamburgh intent on finally connecting with Black Guillemot in the county as one reported yesterday off Stag Rocks. A thorough search of the sea revealed many birds but no Black Guillemot. Numbers were well up on recent visits with c300 Common Scoter in a distant flock, at least 35 Long-tailed Ducks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235","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\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}