{"id":6269,"date":"2015-11-22T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2015-11-23T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T08:06:07","slug":"newbiggin-22nd-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6269","title":{"rendered":"14th-22nd November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the icy cold weather conditions this weekend, birdwatchers flocked to the coast to witness a good passage of <strong>Little Auks<\/strong>. Between work commitments, I managed an hour myself at Newbiggin. I was welcomed on arrival by my first Little Auk of the year, which flew over my head, whilst nearby three more were sitting on the sea. Within the next hour I noted 65 all traveling north.<\/p>\n<p>I also recorded 26 Common Scoter, 5 Red-throated Diver, Shag, Cormorant, Eider and Guillemot. I was also pleased to find a dozen Purple Sandpipers on the rocks.<\/p>\n<p>No sign for me of any Great Northern Divers , Black-throated Divers or Velvet Scoters, however these had been recorded along the Northumberland and Tyneside Coast by other birders.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere over the past couple of weeks \u00a0a <strong>Long-billed Dowitcher<\/strong> has remained at Cresswell Pond. \u00a0I was lucky to catch up with this on Sat 14th November. \u00a0My views were distant, but were still canny. \u00a0I also recorded three groups of Whooper Swan totalling, 10 birds between Cresswell and East Chevington.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby there has also been sightings of \u00a0Hooded Crow and Twite.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Buskin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the icy cold weather conditions this weekend, birdwatchers flocked to the coast to witness a good passage of Little Auks. Between work commitments, I managed an hour myself at Newbiggin. I was welcomed on arrival by my first Little Auk of the year, which flew over my head, whilst nearby three more were sitting [&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":[87,89,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-6269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-little-auk","8":"tag-long-billed-dowitcher","9":"tag-newbiggin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269","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=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6277,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}