{"id":3105,"date":"2013-11-23T22:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3105"},"modified":"2013-11-23T22:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:36:01","slug":"22nd-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3105","title":{"rendered":"22nd November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dawn to dusk day starting at Newton where the Lesser Grey Shrike is still\u00a0fit &amp; well &amp; showing to all comers by the Links House car park south of the Long\u00a0Nanny estuary. It seems to put up with over enthusiastic photographers very well. These pics were unfortunately early morning before the light got better &amp; with no\u00a0other people it performed well on posts around the car park. A walk up to Newton Pt\u00a0gave me a late Great Skua past with still a steady procession of Gannets. On to Seahouses &amp; Monk&#8217;s House with little to report. Stag Rocks at Bamburgh can always\u00a0be relied upon &amp; a fine immature male Velvet Scoter fairly close in was the\u00a0undoubted highlight. At least 20 Long-tailed Ducks 100 Common Scoter &amp; 1 Slavonian\u00a0Grebe there plus a few Purple Sandpipers. Budle Bay was quiet &amp; lunch beckoned at\u00a0the Barn at Beal as Janet is in Ethiopia on a birding trip. Hence a fine meal as\u00a0opposed to my forlorn concoctions. Another wander\u00a0at the Holy Island causeway revealed little &amp; ended the day at Fenham le Moor where\u00a0a fine female Merlin performed well on posts. Pintail numbers seemed low with\u00a0only 20 seen &amp; the Pale-bellied Brent Geese were distant towards the causeway.<\/p>\n<p>TRD<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3106 alignleft\" alt=\"L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-2-TD-22-11-13-598x400.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3107 alignleft\" alt=\"L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/L-G-Shrike-1-TD-22-11-13-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Merlin-TD-22-11-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3108 aligncenter\" alt=\"Merlin-TD-22-11-13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Merlin-TD-22-11-13.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Merlin-TD-22-11-13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Merlin-TD-22-11-13-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dawn to dusk day starting at Newton where the Lesser Grey Shrike is still\u00a0fit &amp; well &amp; showing to all comers by the Links House car park south of the Long\u00a0Nanny estuary. It seems to put up with over enthusiastic photographers very well. These pics were unfortunately early morning before the light got better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3105","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\/3105","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}