{"id":2423,"date":"2013-10-16T15:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2013-11-01T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:12:38","slug":"st-marys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"St Marys – 14th-16th October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

My daily visits to St Marys over the past few days have produced a good variety of birds, without there having been anything resembling a fall of migrants. One highlight was a Short eared Owl which\u00a0I almost stood on in the grass before it hurriedly took flight. Another was seen coming in off the sea a couple of days before. 3 Woodcock have been seen to fly inland and on 14th and 15th\u00a0 2 or 3 Meally Redpolls feeding at very close range on seed heads. 2 Stonechats have been frequenting the area ,1 watched bathing in a puddle . Goldcrests have been a recent feature,with probably a maximum of 20 noted and a Firecrest has again been seen up to this Monday to my knowledge. 2 Brambling noted on 14th ,with another 8 in the nearby cemetery,more Goldcrests there too. Nice to see yesterday (15th) were 4 Swallows which spent a few hours feeding in the lee of the bushes ,before heading off south. 4 Blackcaps,2 Fieldfares and around 25 Redwings\u00a0also noted. Good sized flocks of Green and Goldfinches are feeding on the Rosehips and seed-heads in the wetland area.<\/p>\n

The fields have been alive with birds and today a Peregrine was filling the air with flocks of Linnets,Starlings,Lapwings,Curlews and Golden Plover (c 2,000), Skylarks and Meadow Pipits.<\/p>\n

Recent seawatches have proved very productive, with highlights being record numbers of Great Skuas, a Long tailed Skua juv., several Pom. Skuas, a\u00a0Leaches Petrel,(MHS). 4 Black throated Divers, Great Northern diver and Red necked Grebe.<\/p>\n

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My daily visits to St Marys over the past few days have produced a good variety of birds, without there having been anything resembling a fall of migrants. One highlight was a Short eared Owl which\u00a0I almost stood on in the grass before it hurriedly took flight. Another was seen coming in off the sea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2423","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\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}