{"id":8105,"date":"2016-06-01T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2016-06-09T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:08:31","slug":"swallows-nesting-in-a-natural-site-second-county-occurrence-may2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/?p=8105","title":{"rendered":"Swallows nesting in a natural site. Second County occurrence, May,2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A return visit to a site I had discovered previously, near Stonehaugh, on the edge of Wark Forest\u00a0in north west Northumberland where two pairs of Swallows were seen entering a rocky cave on a small hillside, revealed two nests, in\u00a0one of which the birds appeared to be incubating eggs. The other unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>This represents only the second recorded instance of the species using a natural site for nesting\u00a0in the county, following a pair raising young from a sandy, cliff-side nest on Holy Island two years ago(IK.). Close by, other pairs are nesting at a farm in more\u00a0traditional man-made sites where perhaps nest sites are at a premium, prompting these birds to use the cave. Nationally also, this behaviour is extremely rare, with very few recorded cases.<\/p>\n<p>I will\u00a0\u00a0return to determine what breeding success, hopefully occurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Alan S. Jack<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7963 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swallow-5-AJ-05-16-Sharpeton-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Sharpeton, AS Jack, May. \" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swallow-5-AJ-05-16-Sharpeton-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swallow-5-AJ-05-16-Sharpeton-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swallow-5-AJ-05-16-Sharpeton-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Swallow-5-AJ-05-16-Sharpeton.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8106 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_05_14_9999_209-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"2016_05_14_9999_209\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_05_14_9999_209-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_05_14_9999_209-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_05_14_9999_209-564x400.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_05_14_9999_209.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A return visit to a site I had discovered previously, near Stonehaugh, on the edge of Wark Forest\u00a0in north west Northumberland where two pairs of Swallows were seen entering a rocky cave on a small hillside, revealed two nests, in\u00a0one of which the birds appeared to be incubating eggs. The other unfinished. This represents only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}