{"id":5487,"date":"2015-04-15T21:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2015-05-26T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:24:44","slug":"druridge-and-swallow-pond-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=5487","title":{"rendered":"Druridge and Swallow Pond \u2013 15th April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always make an effort to visit Druridge when I\u2019m on holiday. Cresswell was alive with Spring visitors which included Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler. \u00a0On the pond, a single Wigeon remained. I was lucky to find a handsome male Stonechat, standing on a post close to the dunes.<\/p>\n<p>The morning started cold and dull and as I\u2019d only brought some refreshing Kiora Juice with me, I stopped at the caf\u00e9 in the Druridge Bay Country Park for a hot coffee and a pastry.<\/p>\n<p>After only a short walk I was at East Chevington. Common and Sandwich Terns noisily announced their arrival. On the ever expanding set of bird feeders, Goldfinches were enjoying the millet seed, whilst nearby Chiffchaff\u2019s and Willow Warbler\u2019s could be heard.<\/p>\n<p>On my drive back from Druridge, I stopped off at the Rising Sun Country Park as there had been reports of a visiting Mandarin. After half an hour of searching I found the Mandarin standing on a post on the fringes of the pond, preening. It looked like something straight out of a David Attenborough rainforest documentary. It certainly didn\u2019t look like a captive individual.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Buskin<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5490 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\" alt=\"Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s-150x300.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Blue-Tit-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s-200x400.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5491 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\" alt=\"Goldfinch-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-1-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-2-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5492 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-2-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg\" alt=\"Goldfinch-2-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-2-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Goldfinch-2-PB-04-15-East-Chevington-s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always make an effort to visit Druridge when I\u2019m on holiday. Cresswell was alive with Spring visitors which included Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler. \u00a0On the pond, a single Wigeon remained. I was lucky to find a handsome male Stonechat, standing on a post close to the dunes. The morning [&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":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-5487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-mandarin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","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=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5652,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}