{"id":6857,"date":"2016-02-02T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2016-02-03T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T23:27:48","slug":"a-redhead-smew-continues-to-entertain-local-birders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"A Redhead Smew continues to entertain local birders &#8211;  2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local redhead <strong>Smew <\/strong>is still<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>entertaining birders at Killingworth Lake, with occasional outings to Holywell Pond, Rising Sun Country Park and the Big Waters Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>A winter visitor from Scandinavia and Russia which is sadly uncommon in our county, so a long staying individual is treasured, especially by the local birders. \u00a0Many birders are wishing for a male to visit. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>A seaduck fossil from the <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Middle Miocene<\/em><\/span> shows that birds similar to Smew existed up to 13 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>The short video clip below is by David Dinsley &#8211; naturenortheast.co.uk<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/153974724\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local redhead Smew is still\u00a0entertaining birders at Killingworth Lake, with occasional outings to Holywell Pond, Rising Sun Country Park and the Big Waters Nature Reserve. A winter visitor from Scandinavia and Russia which is sadly uncommon in our county, so a long staying individual is treasured, especially by the local birders. \u00a0Many birders are [&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":[127,129,128,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-6857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-david-dinsley","8":"tag-killingworth","9":"tag-naturenortheast","10":"tag-smew"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","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=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}