{"id":6296,"date":"2015-12-09T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2016-01-12T23:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T23:41:24","slug":"eleven-waxwings-on-a-wet-and-windy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6296","title":{"rendered":"Eleven Waxwings on a Wet and Windy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the 26th-30th November 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I decided to go in search of berry loving <strong>Waxwings<\/strong>. Saturday proved fruitless, with no sign at any of their favorite places. On the sunday however I heard reports of a group at Ashington, Northumberland, so after breakfast I drove up to have a look. I was in luck, close to Woodhorn Motors in Ashington, eleven Waxwings were showing extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, before the heavy rain, I was very happy to catch up with a <strong>Black-throated Driver<\/strong> on the north side of East Chevington. Great views of a very attractive bird with lots of character. On the drive back I drove past Cresswell, but there was no sign of the reported Hooded Crow. Maybe next time.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Buskin<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Waxwing-2-PB-Ashington-11-15-gallery-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 26th-30th November 2015 This weekend I decided to go in search of berry loving Waxwings. Saturday proved fruitless, with no sign at any of their favorite places. On the sunday however I heard reports of a group at Ashington, Northumberland, so after breakfast I drove up to have a look. I was in [&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-6296","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\/6296","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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/6578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}