{"id":5210,"date":"2015-02-18T21:53:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T21:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2015-02-19T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:00:25","slug":"big-waters-february-18th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"Big Waters &#8211; February 18th 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An afternoon visit to one of my favourite nature reserves today, proved very rewarding.\u00a0 On the pond, I recorded 9 Goldeneye, 1 female Gadwall, 70+ Wigeon, 60+ Teal, 20+ Tufted Duck and some Mallard.\u00a0 On the island, seven Cormorants relaxed like giant bats.\u00a0 In the skies above, two Buzzards watched from overhead, whilst two kestrels hovered.\u00a0 A Sparrowhawk and a Grey Heron also put in a brief appearance. The feeding station was alive with activity today.\u00a0 I noted all five Species of Tit including Coal, Blue, Great, Long-tailed and Willow Tit.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the ever-present Tree Sparrow, there were three Yellowhammers, one of which was particularly bright, 2 Reed Buntings, a Robin, two Stock Doves and a female Bullfinch.<\/p>\n<p>There were no Grebes or Woodpeckers present today. There had been Otters present earlier in the day, but they didn\u2019t appear in the afternoon.\u00a0 I was not disappointed as I was lucky to see a Roe Deer and a Weasel.<\/p>\n<p>Finally I went for\u00a0 a walk, through \u2018Little Waters\u2019 and in the field at the back of the reserve, I caught up with thirteen <strong>White-fronted Geese<\/strong> and a single Greylag Goose.\u00a0 These were a welcome addition to my year list.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Buskin<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Willow-Tit-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Willow-Tit-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Willow-Tit-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters\" width=\"240\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Willow-Tit-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Willow-Tit-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tree-Sparrow-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tree-Sparrow-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tree-Sparrow-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters\" width=\"240\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tree-Sparrow-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tree-Sparrow-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Yellowhammer-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Yellowhammer-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yellowhammer-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters\" width=\"240\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Yellowhammer-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Yellowhammer-1b-PB-02-15-Big-Waters.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An afternoon visit to one of my favourite nature reserves today, proved very rewarding.\u00a0 On the pond, I recorded 9 Goldeneye, 1 female Gadwall, 70+ Wigeon, 60+ Teal, 20+ Tufted Duck and some Mallard.\u00a0 On the island, seven Cormorants relaxed like giant bats.\u00a0 In the skies above, two Buzzards watched from overhead, whilst two kestrels [&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-5210","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\/5210","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=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}