{"id":6526,"date":"2016-01-04T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2016-02-06T00:50:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:50:44","slug":"our-long-staying-long-billed-dowitcher-4th-jan-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6526","title":{"rendered":"Our Long Staying Long-billed Dowitcher &#8211; 4th Jan 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cresswell Pond, Northumberland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For weeks, Northumberland has been home to a visiting <strong>Long Billed Dowitcher<\/strong>. \u00a0Many birders have observed this rare wader, through a telescope, whilst it was at the far side of Cresswell Pond. \u00a0At times it has wandered up to Druridge Pools.<\/p>\n<p>On the 4th January, the Long billed Dowitcher, spent a few hours on the sand bank at Cresswell Pond and could be observed very well from the bird hide. \u00a0It has since often returned, to the delight of the local birders.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Photos below by Bill Richmond\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6531\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2.jpg\" alt=\"Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-4-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s2-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6529 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1.jpg\" alt=\"Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-5-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s1-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6533 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4.jpg\" alt=\"Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-2-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s4-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6532 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3.jpg\" alt=\"Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Long-billed-Dowitcher-3-BR-01-16-Cresswell-Pond-s3-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cresswell Pond, Northumberland. For weeks, Northumberland has been home to a visiting Long Billed Dowitcher. \u00a0Many birders have observed this rare wader, through a telescope, whilst it was at the far side of Cresswell Pond. \u00a0At times it has wandered up to Druridge Pools. On the 4th January, the Long billed Dowitcher, spent a few [&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":[89],"class_list":{"0":"post-6526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-long-billed-dowitcher"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","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=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}