Spent a very rewarding 90 minutes late afternoon today in the Coanwood Burn \/ Coldshield area (NY7258) Waders now well established on territory with Lapwing and Curlew displaying everywhere along with a single pair of Oystercatchers and several single Redshanks. Good numbers of Snipe “drumming” I had 7 around me at one point. A mobile flock of 61 Golden Plover present on the moor many of the males showing extensive black suggesting Northern birds. Further on a single bird watched displaying with that distinctive stiff winged flight and that hauntingly beautiful display call (one of my favourite sounds of spring). A male Grey Wagtail foraged along burn sides along with 3 Pied Wagtails. A single Northern Wheatear was a nice surprise perched on a fencepost. On a thin strip of grassy field 3 Blackcock and a single Greyhen were feeding. Red Grouse were very vocal with a lot of display observed. In a field next to Coldshield farm 1000+ Starlings and 340 (ish) Fieldfare foraged.<\/p>\n
Stewart J Hingston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spent a very rewarding 90 minutes late afternoon today in the Coanwood Burn \/ Coldshield area (NY7258) Waders now well established on territory with Lapwing and Curlew displaying everywhere along with a single pair of Oystercatchers and several single Redshanks. Good numbers of Snipe “drumming” I had 7 around me at one point. A mobile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3761","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\/3761","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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}