{"id":6804,"date":"2016-01-30T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2016-02-13T23:43:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:43:47","slug":"january-comes-to-an-end-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6804","title":{"rendered":"January comes to an end &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been reports of a \u00a0drake <strong>Black Scoter<\/strong>\u00a0enjoying the company of a group of Common Scoter over the past few days off Stag Rocks at Bamburgh, Northumberland. The recent stormy weather has made it difficult to view this rare visitor. Elsewhere\u00a0<strong>Bean<\/strong> and <strong>White-fronted Geese<\/strong>\u00a0have been again noted at Holywell and Druridge, whilst a <strong>Slavonian Grebe<\/strong> continues to enjoy the QEII Country Park. A <strong>Black Redstart<\/strong> has also again been visiting Tynemouth at the base of the Pier and a drake <strong>American Wigeon<\/strong> remains at Grindon Lough.<\/p>\n<p>On the last day of the month a couple of <strong>Waxwings<\/strong> were found with some thrushes on the road between Druridge Pools &amp; Widdrington. \u00a0There has been very few Waxwings reported in the county so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>The long staying special guest; a\u00a0<strong>Long-Billed Dowitcher<\/strong> \u00a0is still loving its winter at Cresswell Pond.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">A full comprehensive round-up of member\u2019s records during the last two months can be found in the club bulletins. If you are not a member, and you would like to benefit from regular indoor meetings, field trips, access to the NTBC Seawatching hide at Seaton Sluice and the flagship annual report which is free to members each year please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?page_id=9\" target=\"_blank\">Join Page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\">A view of Bamburgh Castle and Stag Rocks at Bamburgh,<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Northumberland by Adriana Buskin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p3.jpg\" alt=\"Bamburgh-p3\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p3-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6806\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p2.jpg\" alt=\"Bamburgh-p2\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Bamburgh-p2-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been reports of a \u00a0drake Black Scoter\u00a0enjoying the company of a group of Common Scoter over the past few days off Stag Rocks at Bamburgh, Northumberland. The recent stormy weather has made it difficult to view this rare visitor. Elsewhere\u00a0Bean and White-fronted Geese\u00a0have been again noted at Holywell and Druridge, whilst a Slavonian [&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":[131,119,109,96,117,105,101,118,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-6804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-american-wigeon","8":"tag-bamburgh","9":"tag-bean-goose","10":"tag-black-redstart","11":"tag-black-scoter","12":"tag-slavonian-grebe","13":"tag-smew","14":"tag-waxwing","15":"tag-white-fronted-goose"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","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=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7046,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/7046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}