{"id":517,"date":"2013-04-27T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:26:41","slug":"27th-april-2013-whitley-bay-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Whitley Bay beach &#8211; 27th April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a beach survey this afternoon (1.25 \u2013 3.15 p.m.) I noted migration in evidence with at least six passing and feeding swallows, eight sand martins and three male wheatears. At the water\u2019s edge were groups of sanderling totalling at least 56. On seaweed of upper shore \u2013 several pied wagtails, two or three rock pipits and possibly five white wagtails. Just north of the boat station (south of the St Mary\u2019s promenade) a blue-headed wagtail fed actively and called occasionally (three grainy photos are attached \u2013 had short focal-length lens). Beached bird corpses included two puffins (dead about four weeks) and the right wing of a lapwing. D M Turner\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-517 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7057-B-h-Wagtail-v2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7057-B-h-Wagtail-v2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7053-B-h-Wagtail-v2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7053-B-h-Wagtail-v2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7054-B-h-Wagtail-v2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/130427-IMG_7054-B-h-Wagtail-v2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a beach survey this afternoon (1.25 \u2013 3.15 p.m.) I noted migration in evidence with at least six passing and feeding swallows, eight sand martins and three male wheatears. At the water\u2019s edge were groups of sanderling totalling at least 56. On seaweed of upper shore \u2013 several pied wagtails, two or three rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-517","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\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}