{"id":642,"date":"2013-05-02T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=642"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T11:19:55","slug":"bothal-woodhorn-wansbeck-valley-2-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Bothal, Woodhorn &#038; Wansbeck Valley &#8211; 2nd May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short 14 mile round trip on the pushbike today in a cool south-east breeze at first, then later warm sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Bothal Pond<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No sign of yesterday&#8217;s Scaup, 2 Great Crested Grebes still.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Woodhorn Flashes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three singing Sedge Warblers<strong> <\/strong>were the first of the year at Woodhorn. Seven Wheatears were east of the south pool and a single Oystercatcher was present.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Newbiggin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A little time around the sewage works produced Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Whitethroat as well as 3 Song Thrush.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wansbeck Valley &amp; Castle Island<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I counted 23 Shelducks in a 1.5km stretch of the Wansbeck around Castle Island, 4 Chiffchaffs and probably the same number of Blackcaps sang between North Seaton and Riverside Park. A Marsh Tit was at Riverside Park in mature woodland.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Cooper&#8217;s Flashes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two Yellow Wagtails today along with 9 White Wagtails. A good gull flock were present commuting between nearby fields to bathe and drink, including 17 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 138 Herring Gulls, 122 Black-headed Gulls and 34 Common Gulls. A Buzzard flew south.<\/p>\n<p>A Tilmouth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short 14 mile round trip on the pushbike today in a cool south-east breeze at first, then later warm sunshine. Bothal Pond No sign of yesterday&#8217;s Scaup, 2 Great Crested Grebes still. Woodhorn Flashes Three singing Sedge Warblers were the first of the year at Woodhorn. Seven Wheatears were east of the south pool [&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-642","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\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}