{"id":3085,"date":"2013-11-17T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:52:51","slug":"nov-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"17th November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to High Newton this morning where the very obliging Lesser Grey Shrike showed very well in\u00a0 good light . It perched in trees and on farm furniture ,dropping on to insect prey and occasionally picking mealworms from a kindly provided tray.The second Lesser Grey at this site\u00a0 and particularly unusual in winter. It , at times flew off into the nearby gardens , always returning to the same area.<\/p>\n<p>On the calm sea of Beadnell Bay, 2 Great Northern Divers could be seen among the rafts of Common Scoter and Wigeon together with 75 Eiders and several Red throated Divers and Shags. A single male Snow bunting flew south and a Stonechat noted.<\/p>\n<p>Up to Stag Rocks,where good numbers ,again of sea-duck and Grebes were seen. 4 Red necked Grebes,6 Slavonian,2 Great northern Divers, 20 Long tailed Duck, 6 Velvet Scoter among the 400 -500 Common Scoter in 8 or 9 flocks. 8 Red breasted Mergansers,\u00a0 a single Gooseander\u00a0and 30+ Red throated Divers and a similar number of Shags. On the rocks ,roosted 80 Purple sandpipers and 76 Oystercatchers and a Stonechat here too.Budle Bay and a Little Egret noted , 8 Whooper Swans and 250 Barnacle Geese.<\/p>\n<p>AS Jack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3086 alignleft\" alt=\"L G Shrike etc 17 nov 022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-022-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-022-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-022-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-022.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3087 alignleft\" alt=\"L G Shrike etc 17 nov 048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-048-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-048-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-etc-17-nov-048.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/November-2013-at-cresswell-060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3088 aligncenter\" alt=\"November 2013 at cresswell 060\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/November-2013-at-cresswell-060-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/November-2013-at-cresswell-060-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/November-2013-at-cresswell-060-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/November-2013-at-cresswell-060.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to High Newton this morning where the very obliging Lesser Grey Shrike showed very well in\u00a0 good light . It perched in trees and on farm furniture ,dropping on to insect prey and occasionally picking mealworms from a kindly provided tray.The second Lesser Grey at this site\u00a0 and particularly unusual in winter. It , [&hellip;]<\/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-3085","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\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}