{"id":6731,"date":"2016-01-17T23:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2016-02-06T00:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:15:53","slug":"wintery-weather-arrives-17th-january-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6731","title":{"rendered":"Wintery Weather Arrives \u2013 17th January 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather starts to become more wintery, more Geese have appeared, with sightings of <strong>White-fronted Goose<\/strong> at Backworth and Holywell, and a single <strong>Bean Goose<\/strong> at Holywell on Sunday 17th.<\/p>\n<p>As temperatures dropped below freezing, the pond froze at Holywell apart from a small section in front of the public hide, close to the island. Here a <strong>Mandarin<\/strong> which has been present for the past couple of weeks, remains, resting in front of the public hide.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Photos below by Chris Barlow. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"> <em><strong>A Tundra Bean Goose and a Male Mandarin from Holywell Pond<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings\" width=\"440\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Tundra-Bean-Goose-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6733\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg\" alt=\"Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings\" width=\"440\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mandarin-1-CB-01-16-Holywell-sightings-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather starts to become more wintery, more Geese have appeared, with sightings of White-fronted Goose at Backworth and Holywell, and a single Bean Goose at Holywell on Sunday 17th. As temperatures dropped below freezing, the pond froze at Holywell apart from a small section in front of the public hide, close to the [&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":[109,15,71,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-6731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-bean-goose","8":"tag-holywell-pond","9":"tag-mandarin","10":"tag-white-fronted-goose"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731","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=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}