{"id":4741,"date":"2014-09-22T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T08:21:11","slug":"st-marys-september-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s ,September 22nd 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This a.m. at St. Mary&#8217;s,migrating Barnacle Geese were on the move, my first of the Autumn,with a total of 7 Skiens seen,5 heading south and 2 north. Their calls a sure sign of the\u00a0changing seasons.Over 800 in total. \u00a0One other observer reported 500\u00a0more in the afternoon. A\u00a0flock of Pink Feet\u00a0also\u00a0headed south\u00a0,around 230 in number.<\/p>\n<p>In the bushes of the wetland, 2 Blackcaps, 4 Chiffchaffs,4 Goldcrests and then 4 Lesser Redpolls seen ,with a few Tree Sparrows. A Peregrine appeared over the fields to the west, putting up flocks of Linnets, Skylarks,Starlings and Lapwings ( 200+).\u00a0 Kestrel and Sparrowhawk\u00a0 also noted. 10 Swallows and 12 House Martins were hawking for insects over the wetland.<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies seen in the warm sun,included 15 Speckled Woods,a few even on the rocks of the shore, Large White, Red Admirals and a dragonfly,a\u00a0female Migrant Hawker .<\/p>\n<p>A.S.Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This a.m. at St. Mary&#8217;s,migrating Barnacle Geese were on the move, my first of the Autumn,with a total of 7 Skiens seen,5 heading south and 2 north. Their calls a sure sign of the\u00a0changing seasons.Over 800 in total. \u00a0One other observer reported 500\u00a0more in the afternoon. A\u00a0flock of Pink Feet\u00a0also\u00a0headed south\u00a0,around 230 in number. In [&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-4741","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\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}