{"id":3450,"date":"2014-02-08T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2014-02-08T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:13:55","slug":"february-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"7th February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tour around the local sites saw me at St. Marys and the first singing Skylarks of the year,as 2 birds noted on high. A Stonechat along the west fence line and 3 Reed Buntings seen. A few Rock Pipits,Grey Wagtail and an assortment of waders frequented the rocks and beach. Among these were a single Purple Sandpiper and 68 Sanderling , around 250 lapwings,19 Turnstone and flocks of Oystercatchers,Curlew and Redshank. The wetland held small numbers of Teal , Wigeon and Snipe.<\/p>\n<p>Holywell was quiet, with a few Tree Sparrows and Great spotted Woodpecker\u00a0at feeders. Dipper in the dene.<\/p>\n<p>On to Killingworth Lake, where 5 Gooseander,12 Goldeneye and 4 Shoveler were among good numbers of Coot and Tufted Duck.<\/p>\n<p>Swallow pond next, and 2 jays in the wood,then 1 flying n.w. towards Benton. Water Rail briefly and Siskin and Coal Tit in the woods. The Red Deer remains in residence with the horses.<\/p>\n<p>Along the Bee Hive road at Earsdon, a flock of Yellowhammers and Reed Buntings noted.<\/p>\n<p>A.S. Jack<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3451 alignleft\" alt=\"jFeb2014,Killy 034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-034-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-034-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-034-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-034.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3452 alignleft\" alt=\"jFeb2014,Killy 042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-042-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-042-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-042-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-042.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3453 aligncenter\" alt=\"jFeb2014,Killy 047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-047-300x225.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-047-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-047-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jFeb2014Killy-047.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tour around the local sites saw me at St. Marys and the first singing Skylarks of the year,as 2 birds noted on high. A Stonechat along the west fence line and 3 Reed Buntings seen. A few Rock Pipits,Grey Wagtail and an assortment of waders frequented the rocks and beach. Among these were a [&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-3450","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\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}