{"id":6604,"date":"2016-01-01T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2016-02-06T00:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:45:53","slug":"new-years-day-smew-at-killingworth-lake-1st-jan-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6604","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Day Smew at Killingworth Lake &#8211; 1st Jan 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many birders were out enjoying New Year&#8217;s Day, starting their year lists from fresh, news broke, of a <strong>Smew<\/strong> at Killingworth Lake. \u00a0The bird remained till dusk, but was gone the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on the Lake there were up to nine Goosander, \u00a011 Goldeneye, over twenty Tufted Duck and couple of Grey Heron and Cormorant. \u00a0There was no sign of any Pochard. \u00a0Killingworth Lake is usually a great site to view Pochard, sometimes in good numbers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong><em>Photo below by GK Knox\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16-GPK-sightings.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6605\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16-GPK-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16 - GPK-sightings\" width=\"440\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16-GPK-sightings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16-GPK-sightings-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Smew-Redhead-1-GPKnox-Killy-01-16-GPK-sightings-456x400.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many birders were out enjoying New Year&#8217;s Day, starting their year lists from fresh, news broke, of a Smew at Killingworth Lake. \u00a0The bird remained till dusk, but was gone the next day. Elsewhere on the Lake there were up to nine Goosander, \u00a011 Goldeneye, over twenty Tufted Duck and couple of Grey Heron [&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":[102,103,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-6604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-killingworth-lake","8":"tag-pochard","9":"tag-smew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","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=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}