{"id":244,"date":"2013-03-11T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=244"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:42:09","slug":"northumberland-11-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland &#8211; 11th March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early start guiding today and 15 <strong>Waxwings <\/strong>in Ashington on the way to Seaton Sluice to kick off. I was surprised to find two <strong>Tundra Bean Geese <\/strong>amongst the small Pink-feet flock at Gloucester Lodge as I believed only one had been present and reported.<\/p>\n<p>An attempt to visit Harwood was abandoned due to the road conditions and instead we moved on to Lindisfarne NNR. Perhaps 200 <strong>Pale-bellied Brents<\/strong> were to north of Beal Point and a <strong>Little Egret<\/strong> in saltmarsh near the causeway. Skylarks were in plentiful supply on the shore from teh Fenham Mill hide and a Common Scoter and 2 Red-breasted Mergansers visible.<\/p>\n<p>At Stag Rocks in a very heavy swell 3 <strong>Slavonian Grebes<\/strong>, a single <strong>Long-tailed Duck <\/strong>and a few Common Scoters fed close in. A <strong>Merlin <\/strong>came in off the sea in pursuit of several Dunlin before moving off north. A flock of <strong>Twite <\/strong>remained distant and restless in the field behind.<\/p>\n<p>Seahouses Harbour continues to host two stunning <strong>Long-tailed Ducks <\/strong>offering potential photographers great views in the harbour. Two Rock Pipits also here on the quay.<\/p>\n<p>Further south two <strong>Whooper Swans <\/strong>remain at QEII Country Park showing down to a few feet.<\/p>\n<p>A Tilmouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early start guiding today and 15 Waxwings in Ashington on the way to Seaton Sluice to kick off. I was surprised to find two Tundra Bean Geese amongst the small Pink-feet flock at Gloucester Lodge as I believed only one had been present and reported. An attempt to visit Harwood was abandoned due to [&hellip;]<\/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-244","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\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}